The council has set itself a Local Public Service Agreement (LPSA) target to eliminate the use of bed-and-breakfast accommodation for all homeless 16- and 17-year-olds, including young offenders, by March 2008.
It has also pledged to "significantly reduce" the number of 16- and 17-year-olds in "unsuitable accommodation", and developed a housing and support standard to define what is and is not suitable.
Sue Nash, young persons' project co-ordinator at Wiltshire Youth Offending Service, is leading the work across the authority. "In 2004, a group of agencies were wondering what they could do for a LPSA," she said. "What was common to all those agencies was concern about 16- and 17-year-olds around homelessness."
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