Young adult care leavers are nine times more likely to become homeless than their peers, a charity has said, calling on the government to find an end to the "appalling" situation. Become, the national charity for children in care and young care leavers, analysed government figures...
The Care Leavers Association is a national user-led charity working to improve the lives of people who were in care as children. All of our trustees and the majority of staff spent time in care. We aim to bring together the voices of care leavers of all ages so that we can improve ...
A CARE experienced student has thanked Ayrshire College for being a massive support during difficult times in her life, and has backed herself to go on to make a big impact on the lives of other care leavers. Amy-Beth Miah, 20 from Kilmarnock, praised Ayrshire College for bein...
Manchester care leavers to receive more support from The House Project. Scheme tackles fact that young people are more likely to experience homelessness and men
While the charity says “an overwhelming majority of the 94,000 young people in the UK in care face dreadful outcomes as care leavers”, with 25% experiencing homelessness within the first two years of independence, its programmes...
000 of them are school-leavers.According to Mintel, gap years now comprise approximately one per cent of allUK outbound trips and around 10 per cent of outbound travel expenditure.Tom Griffiths, founder and director of Gapyear.com, the definitive gap yearwebsite that attracts 1.5 million users...
(LAC). LAC are children in the UK who are in the care of the state or are recent care leavers. They are a highly vulnerable population, who are more likely to have experienced several risk factors for social exclusion [20-29]; they are at greater risk of disengaging from education, ...
interviews conducted with 41 social workers, adoptive parents, prospective adoptive parents, policy makers, legal practitioners, foster carers, and care leavers over a period of 18 months (2017–2018) (Table 1). Interviews took place in cities in the Midlands of the UK that had large Muslim ...
Institutionalization of children who are deprived of parental care is a thriving phenomenon in the global South, and has generated considerable concern both nationally and internationally, in the last two decades. In Kenya, the number of children growing