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...
All young people leaving care in Wales at the age of 18 are to be offered the chance to take part in a basic income pilot scheme under which they will receive £1,600 a month for up to two years. The money will be given...
Ofsted has revealed plans to include a standalone judgment on the progress of care leavers in its inspection framework for local authority children’s service. The inspectorate told CYP Now that it plans to launch a...
More than a third of care leavers feel they left care too early and report feeling “lonely”, “unsafe” and unable to manage finances, a new report by Ofsted reveals. The inspectorate’s new report Ready or not: care...
The creators of the Care Leaver Local Offer website say it is the first comparison site showing what English councils are doing for care leavers. They hope that compiling the information in one place will identify gaps...
A change in English law will allow those making decisions about where children in care live to discriminate on the basis of their age. The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021...
What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care has published an analysis of the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve outcomes for young people transitioning into adult living arrangements. A review of 15...
Parents and politicians have rallied behind a campaign to ban unregulated accommodation for 16- and 17-year-olds. The government has pledged to ban such provision for under-16s, but ministers have ruled out halting...
Government plans to introduce national standards for unregulated accommodation for older teenagers will “in effect reduce the leaving care age to 16”, a member of the House of Lords has warned. Read the full article on...
The Taking Back Our Heritage was a project which investigated care experienced young people’s memory, history and narrative. If you would like to view Taking Hold of Our Heritage as a digital flippable book, then please...
Over the past five years, we have collected over 10,000 care-experienced voices through the Your Life Beyond Care and the Your Life, Your Care surveys. Children in care and care leavers have told us how they feel...
