My kids had to sleep on the floor when I escaped my abusive ex – the gift of a bed has changed our lives

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They were just so excited – just the fact they brought two toothbrushes they thought was amazing.” A child’s bed is delivered by Zarach Speaking from a converted shipping container at the charity’s headquarters, CEO Andy Peers said: “Our mission is to end child bed poverty in England but there’s a reason we want to ; it’s to give children the opportunity to engage at school. “Everybody recognises that education is a really clear way to break that future cycle of poverty.” Refuge charity dumps 1,071 'bad apples’ at New Scotland Yard to highlight scale of abuse In an enormous warehouse located down a side street in Leeds, a group of Zarach volunteers spend their days braving the cold to pack rows of flatpack bed furniture into transit vans. Education is the only way out of that for some children so getting those beds, it’s not just that immediate impact, it’s a lifelong impact.” A YouGov poll from September found that 20 per cent of children without a bed said they felt tired at school, while 13 per cent struggled during physical activities and one in 12 parents said their children were “tired all the time” due to not having their own bed. It’s shocking that so many children do not have a bed to call their own, and it’s important to come together to help put that right.” Lynn Perry MBE, Barnardo’s chief executive said: “Bed poverty is just one aspect of child poverty, yet it starkly illustrates the challenges faced by families not having enough money to afford the essentials needed to raise happy and healthy children.