This study follows on from the Anglicare Tasmania report 'Too hard?: highly vulnerable teens in Tasmania', which investigated why and how some young people in Tasmania come to experience extraordinary hardship, prolonged precariousness, and entrenched vulnerability. This new study evaluates care services for unaccompanied homeless children under 16 years old who do not meet the current threshold for a child protection response, comparing how these young people's accommodation needs have been articulated and addressed in a number of jurisdictions in Australia and the learnings for services in Tasmania. It asks who has responsibility for the care of children who present to homelessness services without a parent or guardian present.
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