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.
