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Episode description
Britain is in a bed poverty crisis, with children and babies sleeping on coats or towels on the floor.One charity estimates just under one million children are living this way, forced to sleep in broken or damaged beds, or share them with others.
But despite campaigners calling it an outrage that so many are living in such extreme poverty what's being done to help those in need.
In this episode ITV News' North of England reporter Amy Welch tells Geraint Vincent what you need to know.