10,000 Children Live Rough In The UK

Railway Children is a small charity which evolved when David Maidment, then a British Rail Executive, went to Mumbai on business in 1993.
Deeply affected by the ‘Slumdog’ street children he saw begging around the main railway terminal, he launched the charity two years later.
But an organization that began by helping children in India and then spread to Africa and Latin America later uncovered a pressing need closer to home.
Responsible for the most in-depth research ever undertaken into the problem, Railway Children recently identified that more than 10,000 children, just over half of them girls, live rough in the UK.
This is sad, and shameful.