Suddenly removed from the security of their foster family or isolated from their friends in the residential home, many care-leavers feel lonely and ill-prepared for living alone. Foster carers often take their caring role so seriously that their placements may never have ironed a shirt or cooked their own dinner before they reach 16.
And young people who have lived in residential care have never seen the electricity bills that arrive after they have left their jeans in the tumble dryer for an hour.
This lack of basic skills, allied with the disadvantages that many young people in care have already faced, can lead to a host of other problems.
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