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‘A Place of Our Own'? Teenage Mothers’ Views on Housing Needs and Support Models
Author(s) -
Cooke Jo,
Owen Jenny
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2006.00031.x
Subject(s) - accommodation , government (linguistics) , focus group , embodied cognition , independence (probability theory) , sociology , qualitative research , public relations , psychology , political science , social science , linguistics , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , anthropology , computer science
Since 2003, government policy has required local authorities to provide support when they house lone teenage parents seeking accommodation. This qualitative study addresses young mothers’ routes into housing need and their experiences of housing access and support, drawing on interview and focus group data collected in 2003. The findings emphasise mothers’ preferences for forms of support which facilitate moves towards increased choice and independence. Reinforcing messages from other research, these findings also show a gap between concepts of ‘support’ embodied in government policy and those which inform practice, within agencies and among young people. © 2006 The Author(s). Journal compilation Copyright © 2006 National Children's Bureau.