Homeless family-of-nine take legal action against County Council after being told to 'self-accommodate'

A homeless family of nine, the parents sometimes sleeping in their car after splitting up their seven children to stay from night to night with different relatives, have taken legal action to have their accommodation needs urgently addressed.

The mother said she, her husband and children aged from one to 16 years, are "totally exhausted, upset and worn out from all the struggle".