High-quality foster care plays a major role in encouraging young people in care to enter higher education, a major study has found.
Most participants in the By Degrees study, commissioned by the Frank Buttle Trust and led by the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, doubted they would have gone on to university if they had remained with their birth families.
And foster care proved to be a far more positive environment than residential care.
The study also highlighted the importance of the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000, which placed a duty on local authorities to provide financial support and accommodation for young people in full-time education.
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