The theme for this week's National Care Leavers' Week - "New Belongings" - encourages us to think what it might be like to be a care leaver starting out, alone and scared, into a world in which they don't feel they belong. Young refugees and migrants can feel particularly confused and abandoned at this time, not just because of their transition from children's services, but because many of them are waiting for the outcome of an asylum application or an application to extend their leave to remain. Without permanent immigration status they face an uncertain future and mental health problems that may have been under control while there was some security in their lives may re-emerge. Having previously struggled to come to terms with displacement and loss, some young people now have to deal with the possibility that they will be returned to a country from which they fled.
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