The After Care report found that 61 per cent of care leavers felt their lives were better than they would have been if they hadn't been taken into care although 26 per cent said their lives were worse.
"It is a mixed picture as you would expect, but the balance is in favour of those who said care made their lives better," said children’s rights director Roger Morgan. "In many ways the care leavers we spoke to were positive about their experience of care but negative about their experience of leaving care."
When asked about their experience of moving out of care, almost half (49 per cent) said the help they got to prepare for independence was bad while 46 per cent said they left care too early.
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