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Public reports pack PDF 3 MB - Blaby District Council

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Leicestershire Wide Multi Agency Protocol to<br />

assist homeless/potentially homeless 16-17 yr<br />

olds<br />

Stage 3 Intensive support and homelessness<br />

prevention<br />

The County Wide [SINGLE ACCESS POINT] will<br />

work with young people to achieve a planned<br />

move from home, where possible with ongoing<br />

family support for the young person, if this is the<br />

desired outcome for families.<br />

Where a young person is not able to return home<br />

the County Wide [SINGLE ACCESS POINT] will<br />

explore kinship care and or other appropriate<br />

accommodation with the young person<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 />

if appropriate, contact the young person’s parents<br />

and/or others with whom the young person has been<br />

staying to ascertain the reasons for them leaving and<br />

being unable to return and to try to extend their stay<br />

for the immediate future, while their application for<br />

assistance is determined;<br />

•if this is not possible:<br />

-arrange emergency temporary and confirming that<br />

any invoices are to be sent to the housing options<br />

team;<br />

-ensure that the young person understands any<br />

additional charges which they will have to pay for<br />

accommodation and the consequences of not doing<br />

so;<br />

-if the young person has no funds for their immediate<br />

needs, and can get no other immediate help,<br />

telephone the children’s services duty team to<br />

discuss assistance under Section 17; (Norforlk)<br />

In cases where a young person is unable to return Other agencies and teams, including integrated<br />

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