oung people to move to other accommodation in a crisis, including returning to more supportive accommodation if appropriate. Ensuring that young people leaving care can access the full range of suitable supported accommodation in the area will assist with this. 7.78. In exceptional cases, where accommodation arrangements break down and a planned move to alternative accommodation cannot be achieved sufficiently quickly, provision should be made for access to safe, secure and appropriate emergency accommodation, with access back into more settled accommodation as soon as possible. 7.79. It is important that systems recognise that placement breakdowns that end in eviction, or abandonment, could result in a young person being considered to have become homeless “intentionally”, which may limit the assistance they would be entitled to under the homelessness legislation. Housing Services and Children’s Services should adopt a shared strategic approach to the provision of emergency accommodation and housing and support pathways for young people in order to avoid the use of B&B accommodation. Tenure for young people aged 16 and 17 7.80. Local authorities should work closely with housing authorities and other housing providers to establish arrangements whereby young people are not excluded from potentially suitable rented accommodation because they are aged under 18. 7.81. When young people move to semi-independent or independent accommodation they will enter into an occupancy agreement with the landlord. Depending on the circumstances, these agreements will either be a licence to occupy or a tenancy. Broadly speaking, an agreement will create a tenancy in law where the occupant is granted exclusive occupation of a property (or part of one, for example a bedroom with access to sh