Skip to main content
Gifts from The Morning Star
Government slammed over lack of action to help the 160,000 children waking up homeless this Christmas
Homeless people rough sleeping

GOVERNMENT measures will do nothing to help the 160,000 children who will wake up homeless this Christmas, experts have said.

A senior Labour MP told Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer last week that many of these youngsters were being forced into temporary accommodation due to his government’s decision to freeze the Local Housing Allowance (LHA).

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
Protesters use a van to block the gates to Elbit at Filton n
Terrorism? / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025

Relatives and supporters of the Filton 24 to gather on Saturday outside the Imperial War Museum in London in support for the activists and the people of Gaza

Similar stories
Homeless people rough sleeping
Britain / 19 March 2025
19 March 2025
Members of the public walking past a homeless man begging in
Britain / 24 January 2025
24 January 2025
Ministers urged to unfreeze local housing allowance rates
A child playing
Britain / 20 December 2024
20 December 2024