Call to prioritise care leaver housing
A group of charity chief executives have written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson calling on him to extend homeless ‘priority need’ status to all care leavers up to 25.
The charity chiefs – including Barnardo’s Javed Khan, Just for Kids’ Law’s Enver Solomon and Katherine Sacks-Jones of Become – say the move is needed to avoid a spike in youth homelessness caused by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Such a move would mean that all homeless care leavers up to 25 would be eligible for emergency accommodation from their local authority and would not be at risk of sleeping rough.
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