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Care leavers experience more lonlieness and anxiety, report warns

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Care leavers suffer from significantly higher levels of loneliness, financial problems and anxiety than those without experience of care, a charity has warned.
Campaigners are calling for a ban on unregulated accommodation for all young people. Picture: Adobe Stock
Campaigners are calling for a ban on unregulated accommodation for all young people. Picture: Adobe Stock

In its survey of more than 1,800 care leavers, Coram Voice, has found that around a fifth (22 per cent) reported high levels of loneliness. This is more than double the 10 per cent of 16-to 24-year-olds in the general population who report often feeling lonely.

The proportion rises to 35 per cent among care leavers with a disability or long-term health problem.

The survey was conducted before the Covid-19 health crisis and Coram Voice is warning that many of these problems “are likely to have been exacerbated recently”.

Coram Voice says “a key determinant of well-being is having positive social connections” adding that “chronic loneliness”, where people always feel lonely, is linked to poor physical and mental health.

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