Housing for teenager urgent London

[Archie123412]

Hi all,
Not sure if I'm posting it under correct topic but couldn't find a better one.
There is a teenage girl, lets call her Anna, 18yo, turning 19 in a month, she used to live with her grandma, grandma was a pensioner and was renting a flat from a private landlord, she was receiving pension, pension credit and housing benefit, and that's how she paid rent, but sadly she passed away on a Xmas day, Anna was not on the tenancy agreement, she is studying for btec, doesn't have a job and even she worked full time she wouldn't be able to afford the rent. She made an application for UC, they will start paying her £300 something a month in next five weeks but that's it, she needs to vacate the property by 17th of Janaury, landlord sent her Notice of vacant possession, that asks her to vacate the property by 17th. Anna called her council homeless line and they said that she needs to provide section 21, when she mentioned that she can only give notice of vacant possession they still insisted that they can only proceed with her case if she provides section 21 from the landlord.
My understanding is that the landlord is not obligated to serve her section 21 since she was never a named tenant, and I don't think he will. But without it council doesn't want help her. Can anyone please help with this issue, how to get council to provide her even temporary accommodation, she lived in this council for 6 years

Why?
She needs support to stay in education and improve her life chances just like any teenager should have.

She's 18, social services have no role here. She can only apply for housing through the youth homelessness route but she has to be homeless before they will accept a referral and she's not, yet

Have a look at this charity

www.depaul.org.uk/what-we-do/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIscCWooeNkgMVQPJ5BB0XuR11EAAYAyAAEgKgnfD_BwE

Well her parents have failed her pretty badly in not having a safe home she can return to to regroup and sort out her education. Is this actually the case, or is it more it would be an inconvience to have her back to stay temporarily at the places where her parents live, so they are just being terrible parents.

If so effectively her parents have kicked her out to fend for herself so she needs to access services and support as a homeless 18 year old.

Young people are paid less, legally, and even the adult minimum wage isn't enough to rent a home in most of the south of England.

Streetlink would be worth contacting. Also some local YMCA branches have homeless accommodation.

Some PP are being very harsh, and seem to be assuming she is a university student, whereas it sounds like she is at sixth form?

There's some good advice on this thread, but also some startling lack of empathy and understanding. This is how young people end up on the streets or exploited. Remember this country doesn't even pay its under 21s a full wage.

She’s going to have to apply to every house share she can and get a job to support herself pack and sell everything she doesn’t need or hire a storage unit can parents not help. The fact that they live a distance away doesn't absolve them from supporting there child use a banking app and send your kid some money. Whichever parents mother just died should be helping her pack and empty the flat. But she definitely needs a job and a house share it wasn’t really the grandmothers job to do this before. Speak to the college apply for any assistance available through them the council or even move to either parents home and continue course there.

Definately
I used to work in a college and we had housing officers who helped this would be my first port of call - I hope she gets sorted how sad about her Grandma and now stressful for her x

Check out turn2us.org.uk, she can put in her postcode and check for charities in her area that may be able to help.

I actually don’t think she need to quit college and get a job, I think her mum should quit studying, get a job and support her child! I’m going to assume that will never happen though.

i think she should stay put until she’s evicted and hope the council can help her then. She also need to speak to citizens advice because they might be able to help.

This poor child, if this was one of my kids friends I’d take them in.

Can she move back to her mum's and see if she can transfer her course to one nearer her mum's home. She would presumably still be able to claim some UC just not the rent part ( unless sharing a tenancy with mum).