Looked-after children and care leavers are falling through the net and not being offered support to apply for the EU Settled Status Scheme (EUSS), according to the study.
The EUSS has been created as part of Brexit arrangements to allow EU nationals to apply for UK residency status. Without residency EU nationals risk losing out on benefits, health and housing support.
But the think tank UK in a Changing Europe has found that just 45 per cent of children with experience of the care system, who are eligible for the status, have been helped to make an application.
And from this group only 25 per cent of those eligible were reported as having secured the right to live in the UK, according to the research, which is based on Freedom of Information Act requests to councils as well as latest official figures.
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