Ms Karen Feeney:

I have not encountered that yet. It is geared towards single people. Some of that flexibility will have to be worked out with local authorities.

CAS for care leavers is a limited scheme and, because we have the youth service threshold for the support needs, we are able to be a little elastic on it. I recognise that for the extension of CAS for care leavers, and potentially for young people who have not been formally in care but have had acute needs, there probably needs to be a dedicated support system to go with that as well. That is one of the tensions because it is just the housing without any support. We are choosing, as a voluntary organisation, to continue to provide that support but we have a little flexibility because we have this other youth service in place.