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Running away and future homelessness: the missing link? |
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Edinburgh: Shelter Scotland, 2011. 15p. |
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Shelter Scotland believes that today’s runaways are tomorrow’s young homeless people. This small scale study looked at the patterns and characteristics of young homeless people in Scotland who also ran away overnight from home or care before they were 16. It involved 11 projects that provide accommodation for young homeless people. Over the six months of the study 145 young people (aged 16-24) agreed to take part in the survey. The vast majority of respondents (84 per cent) had also run away before the age of 16 (compared to the national rate of 11 per cent). Over half those who ran away had been forced to leave home. Most young people had run away more than once; one in five at least ten times. Nearly half first ran away when they were 14 or 15 years old, but one in five was 11 or younger. Most respondents said that support to sort out problems at home or school might have helped prevent them running away and around a quarter said somewhere safe to stay would have helped. The report has two core recommendations: making sure that young runaways are supported so that the pattern of running away does not continue; and, for those who continue to run away, getting young people’s and homelessness services to work better together to flag up young people at high risk of homelessness. |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=9f027a0e-203f-4bb8-98f2-0c83d42672a0 |
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