It's Thursday evening and sofas are beginning to fill with young people.While it's hot outside, the choc-ices are a refreshing treat.
Welcome to Westminster City Council's accommodation and leaving careteam, where volunteers who are in care or recently left are preparing tofind out what their peers think about the capital's leaving careservices.
"I think it's good to know what services young people in care are beingoffered by different boroughs in London," says Nejada Bena, 18, who'sjust landed a job at CNN after work experience there.
"We expect to find big differences in what young people get," says16-year-old Klodian Cevani. He's at college and deciding whichuniversity to apply to. "They don't know people in the same situation sodon't have anyone to talk to and ask for help," adds Ellie Yermakova,18.
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