Legal Update: Care – A protected characteristic?
- Social Care | Children's Services | Children's rights | Legal | Leaving Care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care
Ellen Broome, managing director of CoramBAAF, explains how...
Leaving Care
How are children best supported to make the transition from the care system to living independently? See our archive of case studies, research and features.
In-depth
The dos and don’ts of case recording
- Social Care | Leaving care | Leaving Care
Care records can help make sense of difficult childhood...
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...
Putting the Care Pledge into Practice
- Leaving Care | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption | Social Care
To mark the third anniversary of the Care Experienced...
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...
Commissioning: Keeping co-production alive
- Management | Commissioning | Participation | Leaving Care | Residential Children's Care
Covid has made participation more difficult but has...
Interview: Matthew Gordon, chief executive of Spectra
- Social Care | Leaving care | Interview | Leaving Care
Derren Hayes talks to the chief executive of Spectra,...
The reports and investigations set to shape direction of Care Review
- Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Leaving Care | Foster Care | Adoption | Guide To...
Experts highlight the review of residential care, social...
Trauma-informed Practice: Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Social Care | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings | Youth Offending | Leaving Care | Adoption | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Adverse childhood experiences can have far-reaching negative...
Post-16 framework provides pointers for national scheme
- Management | Commissioning | Social Care | Residential Children's Care | Leaving Care
Hertfordshire's care commissioners for looked-after children...
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...
Greater Manchester leads the way on recognising care experience
- Leaving Care
When the Greater Manchester combined arrangements were...
Care-experienced children given a voice
- Leaving Care
Young people have made podcasts about growing up in the care...
Inspections Clinic: Unregulated vs unregistered care
- Residential and specialist care | Inspections | Residential Children's Care | Leaving Care
There is much confusion about what constitutes unregistered...
Sharing the experience of care
- Leaving Care
Campaigners hope a conference for care-experienced people...
Better support for care leavers
- Social Care | Leaving Care
Councils must focus more on their corporate parenting role...
Ensuring care leaver provisions deliver
- Social Care | Leaving Care
Leaving care adviser Mark Riddell explains how local...
Staying Put: solutions to the fall
- Social Care | Leaving Care
Experts explain how to reverse the decline in the number of...
Special Report: Commissioning Care
- Social Care | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care | Leaving Care | Adoption
Commissioners play a pivotal role in ensuring vulnerable...
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...
Transitioning Care Leavers With Mental Health Needs: 'They Set You Up to Fail!'
- Mental Health | Leaving Care
This small-scale study aimed to explore these issues by...
How to improve care, by those who have lived it
- Children's Services | Children's rights | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Leaving Care
Those who have been in care are uniquely placed to identify...
Legal Update: Care leavers and the 'local offer'
- Children's rights | Legal | Leaving Care
Stewart MacLachlan, legal & policy officer at Coram...
How to protect care leavers and looked-after children after Brexit
- Social Care | Leaving Care
The UK government has set out proposals for those who...
Inspections: Leaving care services
- Ofsted | Inspections | Leaving Care
The standard of support for care leavers is cause for...
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...
Enduring ties
- Residential and specialist care | Leaving Care
The government is reviewing the role of personal advisers in...
Improving care leaver housing
- Social Care | Leaving Care
Councils are warned to plan further ahead to avoid placing...
Raising ambitions for care leavers
- Education | Children's Services | Management | Service configuration | Social Care | Careers Guidance | Leaving Care
Care leavers are more likely to struggle to access...
Good Practice
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,...
Salford City Council measures impact by social value
- Commissioning | Leaving Care
Support for vulnerable young people measured on its social...
Scheme emphasises early planning for leaving care
- Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care | Leaving Care
Long-term care planning starts before young people turn 16.
Specialist employment support for London care leavers
- Education | Leaving Care
Charity builds the confidence and personal skills of care...
How young people learn independent living
- Social Care | Leaving Care
Programme prevents homelessness by giving young people the...
SEND support for care leavers, Cornwall
- Education | Special Educational Needs | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Leaving Care
Cornwall was the first area in England to introduce health...
Evidence and Impact: Reunification from care
- Safeguarding in education | Leaving Care
The latest in a series of articles about emerging...
Central Bedfordshire Council
- Social Care | Leaving Care
Council used to "spot purchase" supported accommodation for...
Flat opens up world of finance
- Financial capability | Leaving Care
The Money House helps 16- to 25-year-olds embarking on...
Care leavers fulfil work goals
- Mentoring | Leaving Care
The Drive Forward Foundation helps care leavers fulfil their...
How care leavers tap their strengths
- Leaving Care
Project builds emotional stability and wellbeing in care...
Young people choose to reach their potential
- Leaving Care
Caseworkers support disadvantaged young people to overcome...
Care leaver support in Romania
- Social Care | Leaving Care
Romania has a chequered past when it comes to the state...
Young Essex researchers sent to Finland on care leaver assignment
- Social Care | Leaving Care
Five Essex children in care were trained as researchers to...
How care leavers find employment
- Careers Guidance | Leaving Care
Scheme helps care leavers to achieve their full potential.
How older mentors aid care leavers
- Social Care | Leaving Care
Project supports care leavers to access education, training...
Break's Moving On service
- Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Leaving Care | Residential Children's Care
Moving On is a service for young people aged 16 to 18 to...
How charity helps vulnerable young people move to independence
- Youth Justice | Leaving Care
The Future 4 Me project supports young people making the...
Research
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...
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...
Ending the Criminalisation of Children in Residential Care - Good Practice in Children's Homes
- Residential and specialist care | Leaving Care | Youth Offending
Over the last two years, Howard League has conducted...
Rolling Out RESuLT: Facilitators' Experiences Delivering a First-of-its-Kind Evidence-based Intervention Training for Residential Workers
- Residential and specialist care | Leaving Care
This paper looks at the implementation of RESuLT, a...
Leaving Care Report
- Residential and specialist care | Leaving Care
Statistical data and biographical stories record that the...
Children's Homes Research: Phase 3 Research Report
- Residential and specialist care | Leaving Care
This report focuses on the Leadership and Management...
A critical review of qualitative research into the experiences of young adults leaving foster care services
- Fostering and adoption | Foster Care | Leaving Care
This paper qualitatively analyses children and young...
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