Katie Morris, 24, graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University thissummer with a degree in politics and sociology. Nothing remarkable aboutthat you might think, apart from the fact that Katie is one of just 80care leavers who attend university every year.
Taken into foster care at the age of nine in Camden, Katie left care at18 to attend university. But what for millions of young people is aroutine and exciting move became a logistical nightmare.
"Legally, I should have still been under Camden's leaving care service,"she explains, "but they just gave me a telephone number and an addressof a leaving care service in Manchester and that was it." She was alsotold that everyone over the age of 18 had to go on a duty system,meaning she did not have her own allocated social worker, contrary towhat the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 states.
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