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Many schools, as we all know, provide support far beyond education. They provide help with food, with uniforms and with guidance to families in difficult times. At the moment, those schools do not know that those families are in temporary accommodation. There is also shame attached to being homeless and in temporary accommodation, so parents often do not want to tell the school. They often struggle heroically to get their children to school. I know of many families who bring their children from Luton into Mitcham and Morden to keep the continuity in their schooling. They fear that if they tell the school, the school will remove them from their list.