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<p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping, including
for young people. The Homelessness Reduction Act came into force last year. It placed
new duties on local housing authorities to take reasonable steps to try to prevent
and relieve a person’s homelessness irrespective of whether a person has ‘priority
need’ or may be regarded as being ‘intentionally homeless’, which of course includes
young people. Last year we also updated guidance on the ‘Prevention of homelessness
and provision of accommodation for 16 and 17-year-old young people who may be homeless
and/or require accommodation’ setting out the respective duties of children’s services
and housing services. <br> <br> The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion
to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period. Last summer
we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This sets out an ambitious
£100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the
structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Rough Sleeping Strategy
committed to creating a new social impact bond, the Young Futures Fund. This builds
on the success of the Fair Chances Fund which ran from 2015-2017 and rehoused 1657
18-24 year old's who were or at risk of homelessness.</p>
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