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Welsh government announces funding for young care leavers accommodation

Ministers in Wales have announced £643,000 of funding aimed at helping young people in care find accommodation when they leave.

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The money will be provided in two streams – £400,000 through Innovate to Save and £243,000 through Invest to Save.

Innovate to Save will pay for semi-supported accommodation for young people over 18 leaving the care system and will be provided by Swansea-based social enterprise FABRIC.

Invest to Save will help FABRIC expand its accommodation services for 16 and 17-year-olds to Neath Port Talbot.

The Welsh government said the two projects will provide housing for young people in care while avoiding councils having to put them in expensive emergency accommodation.

People who were formerly in care make up 20% of homeless people in Wales, it added.


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Julie James, housing and local government minister for the Welsh government, said: “I look forward to seeing more young people fulfilling their potential thanks to help from these projects.

“Together these two projects will provide a consistent pathway from care to independent living for some of Wales’ most vulnerable young people, supporting them to develop the required living skills, engage in education and training, employment and address personal development.”

Harri Coleman, director of FABRIC, said: “Combining the goals of achieving equal opportunities and improving outcomes for young people alongside the financial savings which our approach delivers, was the basis of our involvement in Innovate to Save.

“It is FABRIC’s aim to be a part of eliciting positive change in the FABRIC kids and creating alternative positive outcomes in adulthood.”

Innovate to Save is a partnership between the Welsh government, Cardiff University, Nesta and the Wales Council for Voluntary Action, while Invest to Save is fully funded by the Welsh government.

The Welsh government also announced £2.5m of allocations from its Integrated Care Fund for services in parts of South Wales yesterday, including money to support people to stay in their homes and for new supported living schemes.

“Our three-year Integrated Care Fund capital programme aims to better integrate health, social care and housing, because we know homes can make a difference to our health,” Ms James said.

“The programme is beginning to support this objective but I want it to feature more housing which supports people’s health and social care needs in the future.”

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