Tomorrow the homeless charity Shelter are going to present David Cameron with a 'Christmas card' petition signed by over 1000 people. The petition is a plea for the government to acknowledge the amount of children homeless this holiday. Numbers have risen to over 80,000 homeless children which is shocking and awful to even consider what they and their parents are facing this winter. Numbers may have changed but I read a couple of years ago that homelessness in London had reached the same numbers as seen in Victorian times. What I find most shocking is that I didn't know about these figures until I looked on the charity website. I hope that David Cameron acts based on the petition and actually tells the general public about the crisis.
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