Charity Criticises Fewer Safe Places for Teenagers in Crisis

Practitioners are struggling to find safe places for vulnerable children due to fewer services, funding cuts and higher thresholds for intervention, according to a report by Railway Children.  An estimated 18,000 children who run away this year will sleep rough or with someone they’ve just met, many because they do not have somewhere safe to go when they need it most. The report follows the closure of all but one refuge for young runaways in the UK and evidence of patchy use of local authority emergency accommodation.  Read more on the Railway Children website.