POLICE complained that homeless children were “intimidating” council workers yesterday, after dozens showed up to protest against evictions sparked by a regeneration project.

Several children took advantage of half-term to come and demonstrate outside Barnet Council housing offices joining 60 other local residents.

The protest was called by Barnet Housing Action Group after 10 families living on Sweets Way estate were evicted ahead of demolition to make way for new luxury homes.

Footage of the event showed police officers telling a handful of primary school children that housing services would not help Sweets Way residents because their presence was “intimidating.”

Dilan Kurt, the daughter of tenants at 6 Sweets Way, accused the council of not caring about the homeless families.

“They called the police on us, they didn’t do anything for hours.

“I’m still shaking from the cold.”

Ms Kurt’s parents had been made homeless on Tuesday February 10 after the alternative housing provided by the council turned out to be completely unsuitable.

Ms Kurt said emergency accommodation offered by the council was too far away from Barnet, where the family takes care of a disabled relative and where one of the children attends school.

The nine members of the Kurt family are now staying in a two-bedroom flat until Barnet Council can find a better solution.

“We were really happy tenants in this house,” added Ms Kurt.

“They are the ones who are taking us out, they are the ones who are making us homeless.

“It’s not like we are troublesome tenants they want to get out.

“Because they want to build luxury homes they are making people suffer.”

Shereen Tahar told the Star she had been evicted from her home last Friday and “we thought ‘we can’t do anything’.”

Together with her two sons Ms Tahar was placed in emergency accommodation in Edmonton — over an hour away from her children’s schools.

“Because my children are doing GCSE and A-Levels I was told I’m entitled to a house in Barnet, but now I’m outside the borough,” she said.

“I don’t know for how long.”

The protest had a positive impact however, with local authorities promising to call every evicted family with a new Barnet-based hosing solution that day.

Barnet Housing Action Group remained sceptical and promised to keep organising protests and stunts until the Sweets Way families have been rehoused.