Off the Radar Children and Young People on the Streets in the UK: Executive Summary
This research report has been organised into a number of overarching themes presented as sections addressing:
- family and home
- violence
- the role of the streets
- experiences of agencies
- behaviours, identities and states of being.
This research is a qualitative research study and the sample, collected in a number of locations across the UK, represents an opportunity sample accessed through contact with agencies, snowballing8 and spending time in locations frequented by detached children and young people. This sample cannot therefore be assumed to be representative of the numbers of children and young people on the streets across the UK. Because these children and young people are largely not attending school, are avoiding contact with agencies or are not known to agencies and may live nomadic existences, it is not possible, by any known means, to gain a representative sample of the children and young people who participated in this research. What this research provides is insight into the lives of detached children and young people on the streets in the UK and provides an indication of the prevalence of certain characteristics and experiences in this particular sample of children and young people.
Published : 31st August 2009
Author : Emilie Smeaton [ More From This Author ]
Publisher : Railway Children [ More From This Publisher ]
Rights : Railway Children
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