As the recession bites, the risk of young people becoming homeless through repossession or family breakdown grows.
Last year, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation produced a major report into progress being made to address youth homelessness in the UK. Its assessment of service provision, together with comprehensive information on the scale of youth homelessness and the way young people experience it - health issues, broken social networks, risky behaviour and so on - will be useful to those looking at developing both policy and provision.
The report can be found at www.jrf.org.uk/publications/youth-homelessness-uk, along with a free poster available to download for the office or youth club. This highlights the developments that young people say are needed, such as providing support to families so that leaving home does not become the only option, more one-stop shops for housing advice and better training in young people's needs for housing officers.
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