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Welcome to the NYHS knowledge base for local authorities and their partners in preventing and tackling youth homelessness.

News

Communities and Local Government and the Department for Children, Schools and Families launched the publication, Joint working between housing and children's services: Preventing homelessness and tackling its effects on Children and young people at the National Youth Homelessness Conference on 9 May 2008.

The guidance focuses on four groups of children and young people who have been identified as being at particular risk of poor outcomes in the absence of effective joint working between Housing Services, Children's Services and their partners:

• 16 and 17 year olds who are homeless or at risk of homelessness
• care leavers aged 18 to 21
• children of families living in temporary accommodation
• children of families who have been, or are at risk of being, found intentionally homeless by a housing authority.

It includes case studies of good and emerging practice together with links to other guidance, information and resources available to assist strategic managers and commissioners to implement change.

Events 

Bookings can now be made for the National Supported Lodgings Conference on 1 October 2008. Find out more on the NYHS Events page.

About this website 

• It provides a resource for local authority partnerships for transferable ideas and tried and tested operation practice, through the four core areas of the website:
  • Strategy and partnerships
  • Prevention
  • Accommodation
  • Support for young people's wider needs 
• It provides information about opportunities during 2007 and 2008 for networking and further learning, through the network of Regional Centres of Excellence or through NYHS national conferences.
• It reports on live experience in a number of experimental and developmental projects around the country, funded by Communities and Local Government special Homelessness Grant awards.

(The findings and recommendations in these resources are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views or proposed policies of Communities and Local Government).