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Victoria Crockford discusses the impact of homelessness on children and young people in New Zealand, highlighting alarming statistics and societal implications.

I spoke with Victoria Crockford from the Coalition to End Women’s Homelessness this evening. She detailed the findings of the Coalition’s latest report , ‘ Children and Young People Experiencing Homelessness ,’ published today, including: * there are 33,000 children and young people experiencing homelessness and they face significantly higher rates of harm across multiple areas of their lives; * Children and young people experiencing homelessness are nearly three times more likely to have experienced abuse; * Young people experiencing homelessness are more likely to disengage from education and interact with the justice system; * Children under five experiencing homelessness are two times more likely to never have been enrolled with a Primary Health Organisation; * Children under five experiencing homelessness are 1.6 times more likely to never have been enrolled in early childhood education; * Children under five experiencing homelessness are significantly more likely to experience preventable hospitalisations, including respiratory illness and vaccine preventable disease; and, * Māori and Pacific children continue to be disproportionately impacted by homelessness and most of…

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