Helen Bullivant (40) was forced to leave the house on Livingstone Drive on Tuesday because she is more than £1,500 in arrears with rent.

She is now staying in her Astra estate disability car with Spalding Parish Church of England Primary School pupil Mel and her 18-year-old son Andrew, who is unemployed.

Miss Bullivant, who is on sleeping tablets and anti-depressants, said: "My little girl is so scared.

"She asks me where we are going to sleep, and I tell her I don't know.

"We have been living in a house with no furniture because I have had to sell it and I haven't eaten in two days. I am just desperate for help."

The arrears built up after a terrible car accident in France in September 2005 which left her disabled and unable to work.

She had to use all her savings to pay for seven operations to her arms and hip after the crash.

She and her husband Stephen, from whom she is now divorced, had just agreed to move into a house in France when the accident happened.

But this became impossible because she would not receive the same benefits or keep her disability car.

She stayed at the Spalding house but her benefits from the housing department were not enough to pay the rent and the arrears built up to more than £1,500 until the landlord lost his patience.

South Holland District Council cannot pay for accommodation because she still owns the French house, although she is unable to afford to run it and has been trying to sell it.

Her parents do not have the space to help her because they are already keeping her belongings in a tiny two-bedroom bungalow.

She was recently on the verge of getting privately rented accomodation in Spring Street but the landlord wanted the rent paid directly from her benefits and the council was unable to do this.