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<p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. That is
why we introduced the Homelessness Reduction Act, the most ambitious reform to homelessness
legislation in decades, on 3 of April 2018. The Act included changes to ensure that
there is better support for young people, families and care leavers by ensuring that
there are more opportunities to prevent or relieve homelessness.</p><p>In addition
to this, we published a cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy in August 2018, which
set out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now and put
in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. As part of
the Strategy, my Department committed to developing the Young Future’s Fund - a social
impact bond programme aimed at supporting vulnerable young people who are homeless
or sleeping rough. This will build on the success of the Fair Chance Fund (2015-2017),
which supported over 1,900 homeless young people to improve their accommodation, employment
and education outcomes.</p><p>We have also put in place bespoke support for local
authorities through our Homelessness Advice and Support Team, the team includes dedicated
youth homelessness adviser roles which have a commitment to work with local authorities
to proactively promote positive joint working across housing authorities and offering
training, advice and support to all local authorities.</p><p>The Government is committed
to building upon this work and to continue to bring down the number of young people
without a home. The Government is committed to building on recent success of bringing
down the number of homelessness acceptances for 16-17 year-olds.</p>
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