When will we begin to treat young people who have been in care like our own children?
A proposal for young people at 18 to be able to stay in their foster home until 21 that has been put forward by a group of foster care agencies led by the Fostering Network, could go a long way to achieving this.
We know from research that most young people leave home after 24 and I suspect this is getting later with the current economic climate. So the way some local authorities have pushed young people into "independence" at 18 (and sometimes before) is a scandal.
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