The educational achievement of looked-after children is a "nationalscandal", claims Kevin Williams, The Adolescent and Children's Trust'schief executive.
The Government wanted the proportion of 16-year-olds who get five GCSEsat A* to C grades to rise by an average of four percentage points eachyear. But figures just released by the Government show that only eightper cent of children in care got five GCSEs at grades A* to C in 2006,up just one per cent from 2005 (Children Now, 4-10 April).
"That's a national scandal," says Williams. "How, if we're going to makelifelong changes for children in care, will they be able to enteremployment?"
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