£300m homeless funding gap

Published date15 April 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
Centrepoint estimated that an increasing number of young people are being turned away by councils which "do not have the means" to fulfil their legal duties in carrying out an assessment of someone who approaches them for help

The charity, which works to tackle youth homelessness, has commissioned research which suggested that local authorities would need 15% more funding from central Government to meet the needs of all of the young people - aged 16 to 24 - approaching them for homelessness support.

Centrepoint estimated last year, using Freedom of Information requests to local authorities, that more than a third of the 119,300 young people in England who approached their councils for...

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