It’s been reported that almost 23,000 young people will face homelessness over the Christmas period. The country’s leading youth homelessness charity, Centrepoint, as found that one young person faces homelessness every 4 minutes, with hundreds calling the charity directly each year, due to reportedly being turned away by local authorities. As a result, Centrepoint has warned of the long-lasting psychological effect, with 71% of formerly homeless young people saying that homelessness worsened their mental health.
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00:00It's been reported that almost 23,000 young people will face homelessness over the Christmas
00:06period.
00:07The country's leading youth homelessness charity, Centrepoint, has found that one young person
00:12faces homelessness every four minutes, with hundreds calling the charity directly each
00:17year due to reportedly being turned away by local authorities.
00:23As a result, Centrepoint has warned of the long-lasting psychological effect, with 71%
00:28of formerly homeless young people saying that homelessness worsened their mental health.
00:32Dr Helen Miles, head of Psychologically Informed Environments at Centrepoint, says
00:38quote,
00:39Experiencing homelessness at any age can have a huge and long-lasting impact on a person's
00:44physical and mental health, but young people are particularly vulnerable.
00:49She went on to say that the trauma and instability of not having a safe home, family or network
00:54To turn to can severely affect a young person's sense of physical and emotional safety, which
00:59can impact on their ability to engage in life opportunities.