Supported accommodation for care leavers in Cornwall
3 rooms are available in Cornwall today. 0 of 3 accept care leavers.
What a room costs here
- Local Housing Allowance, shared accommodation rate
- £90.33 a week, Kernow West broad rental market area (DWP, 2026-27)
- Average private rent for context
- £1,000 a month (ONS, August 2026, average)
Referral route for care leavers
- Statutory basis
- Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000
- Who refers
- Leaving care team / personal adviser
- How the referral works
- The leaving care team or personal adviser makes the referral, with a pathway plan setting out the support hours needed. Funding is normally a mix of housing benefit for the rent and social care funding for the support.
- Eligibility
- A young person is eligible if they are an eligible, relevant or former relevant child under the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000. Provision for 16 and 17 year olds must be registered with Ofsted. Roomfy does not list 16 and 17 provision without a verified Ofsted registration number.
Local authority housing options team
- Team
- Cornwall Council
- Phone
- 0300 1234 161
- Housing options
- https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/housing/homeless-or-at-risk/
Rooms available in Cornwall
Nearby areas with rooms
Referring someone, or filling a room
Referrers can send a request through Find me a room and we will match it against live rooms. Providers with empty rooms can list them free.
Sources: Duty to Refer via Housing Jigsaw or dutytorefer@cornwall.gov.uk. LHA left null: Cornwall spans several BRMAs, so no single shared accommodation rate applies to the whole authority. Average monthly private rent from the ONS Price Index of Private Rents, UK, local authority table, reference month August 2026, released 16 September 2026. The published figure is a stock weighted mean, not a median. No district wide shared accommodation rate: Cornwall spans the Kernow West and North Cornwall and Devon Borders BRMAs, with border areas in the Plymouth BRMA. | LHA via VOA LHA-Direct. Cornwall spans three BRMAs: Kernow West 90.33 (largest by population, covers Truro, St Austell, Newquay, Penzance), North Cornwall and Devon Borders 84.77, Plymouth 92.05. Offer a postcode lookup alongside this figure. Last verified 2026-09-18.