Centrepoint report that almost 23,000 young people face homelessness over Christmas

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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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00:00The statistic of one young person every four minutes facing homelessness is shocking. That

00:07amounts to almost 23,000 young people facing homelessness this winter. And we see a huge

00:14impact of that experience on the young people that we work with in Centrepoint. Firstly,

00:19many of our young people prior to experiencing homelessness come from very traumatic, difficult

00:24backgrounds. But even the process of being homeless can also further compound that early

00:29trauma. And we often see young people facing anxiety, depression, sometimes PTSD. Often

00:38there's a huge impact on their self-esteem.

00:40And there's just not enough support out there. We know that it's harder and harder for people

00:45to afford accommodation. It's a lot harder for people to move out of the family home

00:50when they want to, let alone when they're forced to. We can make a difference when people

00:54do contact us. We can offer that reassurance.

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