Youth homelessness reaches record level

by GD Tue 25 Jan 2011, 7:04 pm

THERE has been a dramatic rise in the number of young people using the Island’s homeless shelters, the JEP can reveal.
According to the Shelter Trust, which runs Jersey’s three homeless shelters, a quarter of all users are now under the age of 25 – a worrying trend unprecedented in recent years.
Housing Minister Sean Power believes the rise, while it can be partly blamed on the recession, is down to a lack of help for young people who have been in care or have been pushed out by their families without any life skills.
He now wants States’ departments to work together on an alternative way of preparing young adults for life on their own that doesn’t involve homeless shelters( from JEP

And I don't think that Guernsey is much better either... Quite worrying really... Suspect