The charity's Safe in the City project, which offers services for young runaways in Manchester, drew up the guidelines. These will help the council co-ordinate the efforts of police, social services, charities, education and health authorities. The society is drawing up similar protocols for Greater Merseyside.
Penny Dean, director for children and young people at the society, said: "We know how at risk these children are. We need to treat runaways as everybody's responsibility, with guidelines to protect them on the streets."
There is a separate youth homelessness charity, also called Safe in the City, in London (YPN, 30 April, p14).
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