Or rather, says the charity's chief executive Anthony Lawton, Centrepoint - ostensibly a youth homelessness charity - is renewing its focus of recent times. The London-based organisation will now set out to bring together the best housing, social, youth and education work for young people. More or less, this is what it has done for the past five years. But the time had come, says Lawton, to emphasise "where we've got to and where we're heading in the future".
In spelling out Centrepoint's newly stated "central purpose", he says that an integrated approach is essential when addressing the problems faced by socially excluded young people.
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