Responses to the 10,000 Voices project, which represents the views of four- to 18-year-olds shared between 2016 and 2021, found that 83 percent of children and young people in care feel that “life is getting better”.
The research, undertaken by the charity Coram Voice and The Rees Centre at the University of Oxford, looked at the wellbeing of children in care in England and compared it with other data sets, including the Children’s Society Good Childhood report, wellbeing data from the Office for National Statistics and the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children study.
Findings were more positive for children in care than the general population in some areas, with a “larger percentage” feeling “safe where they lived, liking school and feeling the adults they lived with took an interest in their education”, the report states.
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