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16-17 yr old Homelessness Protocol – Best Practice Analysis<br />
Leicestershire Wide Multi Agency Protocol to<br />
assist homeless/potentially homeless 16-17 yr<br />
olds<br />
Stage 1 Contact<br />
A young person may make contact or seek advice<br />
from a number of agencies:<br />
• Children’s Social Care<br />
• Housing <strong>District</strong>s<br />
• Youth Offending Services<br />
• Connexions<br />
• Third sector or statutory agencies such as<br />
Colleges and Citizens Advice Bureaus<br />
• Self referrals to accommodation providers<br />
or advice agencies<br />
Children’s Social Care will not normally accept<br />
referrals for an initial child in need assessment on<br />
the basis of a young person requiring<br />
accommodation without the young person first<br />
accessing the County wide [SINGLE ACCESS<br />
POINT] for intensive support in the first instance.<br />
Only one district, Charnwood BC has a SAP.<br />
SAP being piloted in O&WBC May – Nov 2012<br />
The remaining Housing Options teams in Leics<br />
operate referral system<br />
Stage 2 Initial response processes<br />
[SINGLE ACCESS POINT] assessors will take<br />
responsibility for the initial response process and<br />
will begin to gather detailed information to<br />
APPENDIX 2<br />
Worcestershire, Sussex, Norfolk County<br />
<strong>Council</strong>’s<br />
(protocols identified as best practice by Anna Whalen,<br />
Youth Homelessness Advisor for the Dept of Communities<br />
and Local Government<br />
When a young person is homeless or threatened<br />
with homelessness, they should be directed to see<br />
the Young Persons Worker. When a joint<br />
assessment is required, this will be carried out within<br />
10<br />
working days. (Sussex)<br />
Children’s services duty teams are not directly<br />
accessible to the public. In the rare instance of a<br />
young person who has a housing need first<br />
presenting themselves in crisis to a children’s duty<br />
team they will be asked to telephone Care Connect.<br />
Care Connect will collect from the young person<br />
sufficient information to make a referral to the duty<br />
team for assessment, if appropriate. (Norfolk C)<br />
Connexions will be required to attend all joint<br />
assessments for 16/17 year olds with Children’s<br />
Social Care and Housing. Connexions workers can<br />
advocate for the young person and, if appropriate<br />
can speak on behalf of the young person during an<br />
assessment.<br />
check with the relevant housing options team<br />
whether the young person has already contacted<br />
them and if so the status of their request for<br />
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