Representatives from The Foyer Federation, Centrepoint and the National Council of YMCAs attended a recent meeting where Department for Education and Skills (DfES) officials briefed stakeholders on the green paper's contents.
In the letter, which is signed by Anthony Lawton, the chief executive of Centrepoint, the charities wrote: "It is essential to tackle the issues of home and housing and, of course, income. We fear these figure insufficiently in current thinking."
The groups recommend a joined-up funding model. This would bring together the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Supporting People initiative with resources from Connexions and learning and skills councils. They argue that if vulnerable young people are not helped with basic needs they will not benefit from the wider initiatives in the green paper. Lawton told Young People Now: "The youth green paper must not just be about things to do and places to go. It has to be about people to talk to, too."
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