Asked To Leave Home By Your Parents
How We Can Help You
If you are asked to leave home by your parents the Housing Advice Team may be able to assist you with the following:
- Mediating with your parents to enable you to remain at home
- Seeking alternative accommodation
- Benefit entitlement, please feel free to use our benefit calculator to check your entitlement
- Housing Options
- Provision of emergency accommodation in some instances
- Referrals to other supporting agencies
We will discuss with you the reasons why you have to leave home and where appropriate will refer you to one or more of these agencies. Leaving home in a planned way will reduce the chance of homelessness. Here are a few things you should consider:
- Safe to stay - friends may put you up for a few days, but probably can't or won't for a long period of time.
- Money - how will you feed yourself , pay your rent and bills?
- Belongings - what will you need to take as well as clothing e.g. bedding, maybe some furnishings, etc?
- Deposit and rent in advance - most landlords are likely to want a deposit and rent in advance
- You should try to save up for the cost of your move.
Planning For Your Future
It is clear that throughout Poole many people have a genuine problem in finding appropriate accommodation. Such pressures can lead to frustration and disputes within their current home.
Being made homeless from parents, relatives or friends accounts for a large number of housing applicants it is not possible to remain at home. However, for many others the security provided by home will enable young people to plan their future accommodation needs, often with the help of housing department.
It is the aim of the housing advice team to try to prevent, wherever possible, disputes at home leading to homelessness. Although this is not always possible, the Housing Advice Team would endeavour to try to liaise with your family, enabling you to return home in a planned manner. Hopefully, this would avoid the need for emergency accommodation such as bed and breakfast accommodation, or homeless shelters,
Housing Services may have no legal duty to provide you with emergency accommodation. This will only be considered following a home visit with your family and all other options have been considered .
Other Agencies We Work With
The Housing Advice Team work closely with a number of housing and advice agencies, such as:
- Connexions
- Quay Advice Centre
- Hyped 21
- homeless hostels
- social services
FREEPHONE - HOUSING ADVICE - 0800 0929710
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