My teachers had no idea I was homeless. People like me hide in plain sight in the UK | Isra Sulevani

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Looking back, I realised it wasn’t a holiday, and it wasn’t through choice, but my parents were pretty good at acting as if it was.
60% : Looking back, it kind of felt as if everyone else was making small leaps on little stones to cross a river, while my family and I had to wade through, our shoes drenched.
58% : In another place there were four of us in one room with all our belongings, while my siblings and I played human Tetris in bunkbeds.
58% : She had to ask me again if I was sure of the amount, because she was struggling to believe that that figure had sustained my whole family.
58% : After my teacher found out about our situation, she put us on free school meals, which helped massively.
58% : While we wait, more people are going through what my siblings and I did.
53% : They have a picture of what homelessness should look like, and my family and I don’t fit into it – I’m at university studying medicine now.
52% : In one, we lived above a party animal, blaring music so loud it would make my head thump as we tried to go to sleep.
47% : Usually when we moved schools, we just left, without telling them.
40% : Others had rats – once my sister burst out of the bathroom screaming, in the middle of the night, because one had emerged when she lifted the toilet seat.

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