Key findings:
- Over 83,000 homeless young people have been accommodated by local authorities or homelessness services during 2013-14
- Nine per cent of UK young people have slept in an ‘outside’ place in the last year, including on the street, in car parks or parks, because they had nowhere else to go
- 26 per cent of UK young people have slept in an unsafe place because they had nowhere else to go. This equates to an estimated 1.3m young people aged 16 to 24
- 35 per cent of UK young people have experience of sofa surfing which would suggest over a million 16-25 year olds having done so nationally
The summary and full report can be accessed here
An article in Social Inclusion can be found here
Centrepoint have produced this policy briefing in response to the research.
Cambridge TV ran an article on the research in a piece on Youth Homelessness.
And the lead researcher, Anna Clarke, has written a blog about undertaking the research, which you can read here.