Gap is harder to bridge for homeless children

With the publication, today of ‘Home Works’, a study examining the impact of homelessness on children, Geraldine Scanlon and Grainne McKenna explain some of their findings.

Children are the fastest-growing group in the homeless population of Ireland. Last week, the Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government released its May 2018 figures, recording a total of 1,724 families with 3,826 dependent children officially recorded as homeless.