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<p>This government remains clear that one person without a home is one too many and
we are committed to preventing and reducing homelessness and rough sleeping.</p><p>As
well as allocating over £1.2 billion to tackle all forms of homelessness over the
spending review period, the government has also taken forward a number of important
actions to specifically prevent and reduce the levels of youth homelessness.</p><p>The
Homelessness Reduction Act, which came into force in April this year, bolsters the
support offer for families, care leavers and 16-17 year olds by ensuring that there
are more opportunities for local authorities to put in place bespoke interventions
to either prevent homelessness from happening in the first place, or relieve them
from a homelessness crisis where it does occur.</p><p>Alongside legislative changes,
we have also published revised guidance to make clear the respective duties of children’s
services and housing services to secure or provide accommodation for 16 and 17 year
old children who are homeless or in need of accommodation.</p><p>In addition, the
government’s rough sleeping strategy, which will set out how the government will meet
its manifesto commitments of halving rough sleeping by 2022, and ending it by 2027,
will include specific action around tackling youth homelessness. The strategy will
be published by July this year.</p>
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