CYP Now - What have we learned about our relationships with care leavers during lockdown?

The Covid-19 lockdown and continuing restrictions has compounded many of the issues care leavers already face – but now, more than ever, the struggles with accommodation, mental health, employment and many other challenges are intensified.

Catch22 runs the National Leaving Care Benchmarking Forum (NLCBF), a network of over 110 local authorities and their Leaving Care teams. Our aim is to improve outcomes and enrich the lives of the UK’s care leavers.

NLCBF has hosted virtual sessions for its local authority members over the past few months and attendees have included participation workers, care-experienced apprentices, personal advisors, and leaving care team managers from over 35 local authorities.

Here, we share the immense challenges our member local authorities have faced, as well as the innovative solutions which have worked for them:

The challenges

Through both our events and surveys, there are clear trends in the issues seen by our members:

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