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ITV News has found that children as young as four years old are being forced to sleep rough on the streets, with local councils in England being accused of breaking the law by denying families emergency accommodation.

We spoke to one homeless family in London with five children who slept on the streets for almost two weeks in December, and another family with three children in Birmingham, all under the age of 12, who were forced to sleep in their car.

Both families were turned away by local councils, who refused to provide the accommodation after they became homeless.

The charity Crisis says councils are increasingly "competing with each other to not help children rough sleeping, which is something I thought we'd never see".