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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Cait Kelly

Young Victorians caught in cycle of homelessness despair of missed education

Young woman alone sitting on a couch in semi-darkness
Melbourne City Mission data shows only 14% of the young people who sought help for homelessness were enrolled in school at the time. Photograph: Maria Korneeva/Getty Images

The youth homelessness crisis is having a massive effect on the education of children and young people in Victoria, campaigners warn, as they call on the state government to follow the Greens and the Liberals in backing a strategy to counter it.

Of the 8,830 young people who approached homelessness services last year, 5,060 were turned away, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

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