The local authorities have often seen fit to make the housing situation of young adults? who have left care a nightmare, as they are forced to live in unsafe housing such as bail hostels, the British House of Commons heard today.
Labour MP Helen Southworth told 24dash.com that the teenagers already have a tough enough time but frequently have to contend with living with offenders. The MP said teenagers described to her their poor living conditions, such as an 18-year-old forced to live in a filthy room with her baby in bed and breakfast accommodation. Others told her that they couldn?t sleep out of fear, due to living in hostels with unlocked doors to their rooms.
Ms Southworth (MP for Warrington South) now wants a law change that will ensure local authorities will provide better housing for 18 to 21-year-olds after they have left care.
She said to 24dash.com: ?Young people are telling us they can be placed in bail hostels with people with problems with drug addiction. They can be placed where prostitution is active in places where they would never be allowed to be when they were in the care of the local authority. But they are being placed in those places by local authorities who don’t have effective minimum standards.?
Ms Southworth?s Young People Leaving Care (Accommodation) Bill would impose a duty on local authorities to ensure that such minimum standards were met. Unfortunately for those leaving care, the bill won?t be made law for a while due to a lack of parliamentary time.
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