Research undertaken for Centrepoint’s Youth Homelessness Databank found that two-thirds of the 90,000 young people in England to approach their local authority for support in 2018/19 received it – up from 48 per cent the previous year. In 2016/17, the figure was 42 per cent.
However, the data shows that just 35 per cent of young people received a “positive outcome”, where homelessness or the risk of becoming homeless was resolved by preventing it or alternative accommodation was found, the same figure as in 2017/18.
In addition, 57 per cent of youth homelessness cases were not successfully prevented or dealt with in England.
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