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Evidence that was gathered some time ago suggests that homeless people tend not to be offered the best choices, despite the best efforts of local authorities to ensure equal access to housing for everyone.
I am sure that young people do not really want to hang around outside off-licences, in parks, by railway lines, and so on drinking. Is that the best we can do as a nation? I do not think so.
There will always be tensions and differences of opinion: the role of central Government is to make it easier for the key partners in the process to come together to decide on the best way forward, in the interests of communities.
The term was never changed.John Park talked about best practice. If we use two terms to describe the same thing, and we understand what the two terms mean, then would not calling something by one term and using another term to describe it be best practice?
It is key that all relevant agencies and advice organisations work together to ensure that we have the best knowledge of who is where and what people’s needs are, so that we can come up with the best solutions to problems and ensure that the benefits of migration are propagated.