To mark Care Leavers’ Month, Dame Rachel De Souza sets out the changes needed to improve support for care-experienced young people into adulthood. Read more.
Researchers are calling for investment in evidence-backed mentoring and befriending initiatives for care-experienced children and young people after analysis found they can boost mental health, reduce trauma...
‘Major reforms’ of the funded childcare entitlement system are needed to benefit disadvantaged children, experts have urged, as latest analysis finds that two thirds of poorer families are missing...
To mark Care Leavers’ Month, Dame Rachel De Souza sets out the changes needed to improve support for care-experienced young people into adulthood. Read more.
Researchers are calling for investment in evidence-backed mentoring and befriending initiatives for care-experienced children and young people after analysis found they can boost mental health, reduce trauma and cut...
‘Major reforms’ of the funded childcare entitlement system are needed to benefit disadvantaged children, experts have urged, as latest analysis finds that two thirds of poorer families are missing out. Read...
Young children and babies living in low-income households are often the most likely to miss out on early childhood support despite being among those most in need of help, a report by two children’s charities is...
The number of young care leavers who report being homeless has increased by more than 50% over the last five years, analysis of government figures shows. Read the full story on this link to Children & Young People...
Half of disabled care-experienced young people are missing out on support as their local authority does not recognise their disability, researchers say. Read more.
Increasing the number of young people in care involved in Staying Put foster care schemes could prevent hundreds of care leavers a year becoming homeless, evaluation of the initiative has found Read the full story on...
A social care service that offers foster care support to adults with learning disabilities is being made available to care leavers. The Shared Lives initiative typically offers adults with learning disabilities a place...
Institution to independence I started university at the age of 23 after spending 10 years in care homes and psychiatric hospitals. Throughout those years one of the things that kept me hopeful was my dream to go to...
The Education Committee has launched a survey that asks care leavers of all ages about the help they received whilst in care and the types of placements they experienced, such as foster care, kinship, residential or...
