This series deals with a wide range of social questions designed to promote discussion among children. The text is complemented by a number of fictional, personal case studies, taken out of copyright, so that they can be copied and distributed in the classroom. Each chapter is rounded off with a short series of questions to encourage readers to develop their own opinions on the subjects discussed. This book in the "Let's Discuss" series considers the origin and nature of the issue of homelessness and the various solutions presently suggested. The text looks at the kinds of people who become homeless and at the cost - both to the individual and to the State - of homelessness. There is a brief analysis of how recent governments have dealt with the problem and a chapter dealing specifically with the problems of teenagers and homelessness. The book concludes by considering how a person's right to adequate housing can become a reality. Case studies feature: an alcoholic on the streets, a homeless family, a teenager on the streets, a single parent family in inadequate housing and an elderly woman unable to repair her house.
Shelter and the United Nations' International Year of Shelter for the Homeless were consulted by the author in preparing the text.
- ISBN10 1852104406
- ISBN13 9781852104405
- Publish Date 31 March 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Imprint Hodder Wayland
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 48
- Language English