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Looks like anyone aged 18-21 who leaves the care system got nothing more than to look forward too than living in a doorway thanks to thurder boots May . From April 2017 Housing Benefit will be stopped for 18-21 year olds full stop watch while homeless raises yet again.

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Looks like anyone aged 18-21 who leaves the care system got nothing more than to look forward too than living in a doorway thanks to thurder boots May . From April 2017 Housing Benefit will be stopped for 18-21 year olds full stop watch while homeless raises yet again.

 

Why can't they live with their parents?

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The care leavers are covered by the "Staying Put" agreement which is mandatory.

A new duty on local authorities in England came into force on 13 May 2014, in part 5 Welfare of Children (98) of the Children and Families Act 2014.

This requires local authorities in England to facilitate, monitor and support staying put arrangements for fostered young people until they reach the age of 21

 

So they are not in the situation the OP suggests.

 

More could be done of course, and some slip through the net.

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Who is going to decide who is vulnerable and what criteria are they going to use?

 

No idea. A heartless judge and executioner of doom perhaps, determined to ridden the country of all those pesky young people on behalf of the evil overlord queen?

 

Or maybe the existing social and medical teams that currently determine if someone is vulnerable?

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No idea. A heartless judge and executioner of doom perhaps, determined to ridden the country of all those pesky young people on behalf of the evil overlord queen?

 

Or maybe the existing social and medical teams that currently determine if someone is vulnerable?

 

I think it's far more likely to be a housing benefit officer. Social Services and the NHS don't have the resources to be a part of that decision and there is no existing process in place like the one you describe. For example it's front line Jobcentre staff who decide if someone is vulnerable when they are considering a sanction. Did you think it went to some kind of panel of health and social care professionals?

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