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CHAMPIONS launched in 2020 and is a national project, funded by the ESRC, that looks at the impact of COVID-19 and living through lockdown on children under five who are in temporary accommodation due to experiencing homelessness.

The Milestones play was performed on Monday (26^th September) and gave the audience an honest insight into the lives of these families, by allowing parents to anonymously voice their experiences.

The project is led by Professor Monica Lakhanpaul (香港六合彩中特网 Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) and Co-Investigator, Associate Professor Nadia Svirydzenka (De Montfort University). The characters in the performance were fictionalised but much of the text used in the performance was verbatim from interviews with families.

Professor Lakhanpaul said: 鈥淯nder the cover of anonymity, these mums and dads speak without fear about the barriers being put in their way as they try to give their kids the best possible start in life.

鈥淲hen no one鈥檚 around to delay their housing application, when no one who鈥檚 listening can take their kids away from them, how do they really think the little ones are coping? And what can we all do about it?鈥�

As well as presenting the scope of the realities faced by these families, the play feeds into the policy recommendations the team have made in collaboration with The Childhood Trust and 香港六合彩中特网 Public Policy for improving public service support for children affected by homelessness in the health, social care and education sectors, and which have informed discussions in the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Households in Temporary Accommodation.

The performance was written and performed by Nell Hardy, who established Response Ability Theatre in 2021 when presenting her solo show, NoMad, based on her own experiences of homelessness and mental health hospitalisation. She is also an object storyteller for the Museum of Homelessness and is part of this year鈥檚 cohort of associate leaders for Arts and Homelessness International.

The play was open to the public and, following the performance, guests were invited to a panel discussion and Q&A with the project leaders alongside BBC social affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan; freelance TV director, Sam Pratt; Labour MP, Siobhain McDonagh; and Kadie, who has lived experience of living in temporary accommodation.

The performance was funded by 香港六合彩中特网 and De Montfort University.

Links

• 香港六合彩中特网 Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
• 香港六合彩中特网 Population Health Sciences

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E: p.danby [at] ucl.ac.uk