The dos and don’ts of case recording

• Social Care | Leaving care | Leaving Care

Care records can help make sense of difficult childhood...

Commissioning: Transition from care

• Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Leaving care

Councils need to develop a more flexible leaving care...

Interview: Zahra Printer, chair of the Care Leaver Covenant’s advisory board

• Social Care | Leaving care | Interview

Fiona Simpson speaks to the chair of the Care Leaver...

Website helps care leavers compare councils’ support

• Social Care | Leaving care | Leaving Care

A comparison website set up specifically for care leavers is...

Personal advisers build strong relationships with care leavers in Oldham

• Leaving care | Leaving Care

Oldham Council's children's services department has worked...

Leaving Care Special Report

• Leaving Care | Social Care | Leaving care

Care-experienced young people can face greater challenges...

Employing care leavers

• Social Care | Leaving care

Care-experienced young people can find looking for a job...

Guide to funding the journey from care

• Commissioning | Leaving care

At NPC we’ve been investigating the availability and...

Better support for care leavers

• Leaving care | Commissioning

Ed Nixon explains how a charity is helping local authorities...

Inspections Clinic: Leaving care services

• Social Care | Leaving care | Ofsted | Leaving Care

Evidence from Ofsted shows support to help care leavers...

University challenge: help for care leavers

• Education | 16-19 learning | Social Care | Leaving care | Leaving Care

Care-experienced young people are significantly less likely...

Interview: Matthew Gordon, chief executive of Spectra

• Social Care | Leaving care | Interview | Leaving Care

Derren Hayes talks to the chief executive of Spectra,...

Making a house into a home

• Residential and specialist care | Leaving care | Residential Children's Care | Leaving Care

The National House Project works with councils to support...

Interview: Helen Johnson – Refugee Council’s head of children’s services

• Children's Services | Children's rights | Social Care | Asylum | Leaving care | Interview | Leaving Care

Derren Hayes speaks to the Refugee Council’s head of...

Outsider with ambition: Katharine Sacks-Jones, chief executive, Become

• Interview | Leaving care | Residential and specialist care

Derren Hayes meets Katharine Sacks-Jones, chief executive of...

Sarah Wilkinson, care leavers impact lead, Catch22: How I Got Here

• Leaving care

Early Help: Special Report

• Early help | Social Care | Homelessness | Leaving care | Youth Justice | Youth Work | Preventing Care Proceedings

Amid rising knife crime, youth homelessness and care...

Legal Update: Education of looked-after children

• Education | Leaving care | Legal

Richard Oldershaw, team leader with the Child Law Advice...

Driving change for care leavers: Mark Riddell, national implementation adviser for care leavers

• Children's rights | Leaving care | Legal | Interview | Leaving Care

Derren Hayes meets the social worker driving reforms for...

Special Report: Children's Mental Health

• Mental health | Families/Parenting | Leaving care | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health

As concerns persist over children and young people's mental...

Still standing by

• Leaving care | Residential and specialist care

With the Children and Social Work Act requiring councils to...

Your guide to the Children and Social Work Act

• Education | Sexual health | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Leaving care | Safeguarding and child protection | PSHE Education | Foster Care | Leaving Care | Adoption | Preventing Care Proceedings | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

What the act means for everyday practice across the...

Around the corner

• Social Care | Leaving care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care

Young people in residential care will soon have the right to...

Innovation in care leaver support

• Social Care | Leaving care

Janet Rich explains how the New Belongings project has...

Lessons from serious case reviews: Returning children to the home

• Children's Services | Information sharing | Social Care | Leaving care | Safeguarding and child protection

The NSPCC has analysed findings from hundreds of serious...

Leaving Care Diaries

• Social Care | Leaving care

Edited by Katy Taylor; Akamas Care & Education Limited; ISBN...

ChildRIGHT: Duty of Care -- Care of former asylum-seeking children

• Social Care | Asylum | Leaving care | Legal

Kamena Dorling, legal and policy officer at the Children's...

Care-experience Fellowship

• Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Leaving care | Residential Children's Care

Churchill Fellowship-led partnership is seeking innovative...

Care-experienced young people challenge stereotypes in shaping charity’s marketing

• Youth Work | Participation | Leaving Care | Social Care | Leaving care

Charity supports young people in and on the edge of care,...

Care leaver scheme brings council and providers closer

• Social Care | Leaving care | Information sharing

A collaboration between organisations in the public, private...

North West initiative ensures sufficient quality placements

• Residential and specialist care | Leaving care | Information sharing

Local authorities in North West England are benefiting from...

Fostered children make film about their lives with care leaver Kriss Akabusi

• Leaving care | Participation | Foster Care

Digital Life Stories project sees young people collaborate...

Writing competition gives children in care a voice to express their hopes

• Social Care | Leaving care | Youth Work | Participation | Residential Children's Care

Writing competition helps looked-after children and care...

Participation in Action: Young people write about inspiring journeys from care

• Leaving care | Participation

A website created by a group of young people in care aims to...

Understanding and better meeting the needs of care leavers

• Social Care | Leaving care | Leaving Care

Ofsted wanted to hear directly from care leavers about how...

Evaluation of the University of Kent’s Consortium Project to Explore How Technology Can Support Young People in Care

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Kinship care | Leaving care | Residential and specialist care | Adoption | Foster Care

This project, led by the University of Kent, brought...

Returning Children Home From Care: What Can Be Learned From Local Authority Data?

• Social Care | Leaving care | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Leaving Care

Researchers from the University of East Anglia wanted to...

Transition from care to college

• Education | Social Care | Leaving care

How the Higher Education Champions mentor support programme...