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Young Runaways: Consultation
Description: "By the age of 16, one in nine young people run away for at least one night. Over the course of a year there are 129,000 runaway incidents, involving 77,000 young people under 16 running away.
In 1997 there were over 21,000 runaway incidents in London and over 10,000 in Manchester.
Most young people who run away do so only once or twice and stay away only briefly. But a quarter sleep rough, and one in fourteen runaways survive through stealing, begging, drug dealing and prostitution.
Running away increases the risk of entering care and ending up homeless as an adult."
Free download in PDF format - 34 pages
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