...Kieran Day; Lizette Nolte; Preeya Vara Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop the understanding of young people’s experience of exiting homelessness, including facilitators and barriers. It considers these experiences and how they can help inform best practice. Design/methodology...

...Jeremy Woodcock; Jamie Gill Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the attempts by one youth homelessness service to implement the conceptual ideas of the psychologically informed environment (PIE) into a practical and beneficial service for very challenging young people who have been...

... Psychologically informed environments Young runaways Risk Resilience Public health United Kingdom Young People Homelessness In the previous issue of this journal, a paper (Smeaton, 2012) was published addressing commissioning of emergency accommodation services for young runaways that ensure...

...Emilie Smeaton Purpose This paper outlines best practice in the commissioning of emergency accommodation for children and young people who run away, identifying: levels of need; models of accommodation provision that have existed in the UK; approaches to funding; costs of emergency accommodation...

...Veronica Coatham; Suzanne Lazarus; Peter Dalton Purpose Using the example of the social housing sector, this paper seeks to evaluate the experiences of one organisation in attempting to learn more about a traditionally difficult to reach and engage group – young people – in order to develop more...