Trying to get rehoused & living in a refuge

[MumE78]

I've applied to the local housing as homeless as I'm currently living in a refuge.
I have a 6 month agreement at the refuge but local council have said they have no emergency accommodation in the area and no homes available for the future.
I'm at a total loss and looking like I might have to return to my old hone once my 6 months here have ended or go to a completely different area 50 miles away to a YMCA that they use for emergencies.
My daughter is about to take her GCSEs at the time we're due to leave the refuge, I cannot commute her 50miles to sit her exams.

How can my only options be
YMCA 50miles from her new school
Return to our old home and put us both at risk again!

Won’t the refuge extend your agreement? When did refuges start issuing time-limited licenses anyway?! That is crazy. Are you in a big city with a housing crisis?

As a survivor fleeing violence, I believe you have the right to apply to any local authority in the country and won’t need to prove “local connection”. Would that work after your DD’s GCSEs? If you timed it carefully?

Even if the LA can’t provide you with temporary or social housing, as you’re in a refuge and statutorily homeless they have a duty to assist you in finding housing. This can include helping you to access a private rental through their guaranteed bond scheme and housing benefit - is there any reason why this isn’t an option you’ve pursued? Do you have a social worker or support worker? They should be pushing the LA on this sort of thing.

Hi everyone

Not all refuges have time scales, this one does unfortunately

I don't have a social worker and I have no grounds to have one tbh

I have been told today that there are charities country wide that own housing and offer either termed licence like I have at the refuge (classed as temporary/emergency housing) and also tenancies that you can apply directly too and not through the LA.
I'm trying this route as a priority for a licence somewhere so I can still be classed as temporary/emergency

I have looked into private rental but the capped housing benefit will get us a bed sit or tiny 1 bed and if I chose that route I cannot be housed by LA

I'll try these charities and see how I get on and let you all know

Talk to the school too. I work at one and I know the Head has helped to escalate cases where a student's future could be damaged by the housing situation of the family.