Improvements supporting their mental health has been listed as their top priority in a series of demands issued to Daby through A National Voice, the children in care council hosted by the charity Coram Voice.
Of young people surveyed by A National Voice just under two thirds said mental health was the “top issue to be tackled”.
Suggestions include having greater access to counselling and therapy, so that young people with experience of care can choose to “opt-out rather than opt-in”.
“More and better trauma training for staff, teachers and foster carers,” is also needed said one young person surveyed by A National Voice.
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