We examine those aspects of the 2000 Children (Leaving Care) Act that have placed a duty on local authorities to provide financial support for care leavers from October 2001. It is argued that the good intentions of the Act may be eroded by inherent problems in the new system of support ...
We examine those aspects of the 2000 Children (Leaving Care) Act that have placed a duty on local authorities to provide financial support for care leavers from October 2001. It is argued that the good intentions of the Act may be eroded by inherent problems in the new system of support be...
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“The objective is to form a network so care leavers like us have a platform to bring reform,” says Binayak Manandhar, president of the organization. “Young people leaving care frequently feel isolated, lonely and lack the safety net of someone to talk to and advise them in a crisis.”...
Barnardos will continue to offer foster care, kinship care, permanency services, support for care leavers aged 18-25 years and therapeutic support in Canberra. Dr Miller said recruitment had been positive, with locals Rebecca Cormack and Ben Chapman engaged as director and ACT regional manager respe...
Kent County Council is responsible for 661 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, along with 1,030 care leavers. However, it claims 489 new arrivals had been referred to them in the past month alone, compared to just 136 children being sent to other local ...
However, care experiences can manifest themselves unexpectedly, having an impact on the care leavers for the rest of their lives. There is a recurring pattern in the interviews that can be described as the experience of objectification. This feeling of being objectified is often linked to a ...
The aim of the current study was to examine the impact of ACEs on the QoL in a sample of young adult youth residential care leavers and if self-efficacy and self-directedness mediate this relationship. Our findings are consistent with the initial hypotheses. First, young adults placed in out...
legal practitioners, foster carers, adult care leavers and their families – as the makers of meaning, holders of knowledge and negotiators of identity. The research was undertaken in three phases, all of which entailed different ways of answering the question – who is a Muslim looked-after chi...