Published by What Works for Children’s Social Care and Cardiff University, May 2020
SUMMARY
In the UK, children and young people who have been in care are significantly less likely to progress into higher education. Researchers from Cardiff University’s Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (Cascade) set out to explore the expectations of young people in care when it came to higher education and how expectations change over time.
Researchers analysed data from the Next Steps dataset, which followed the progress of more than 15,700 English young people. Of those, 231 were classified as care-experienced. After taking other factors into account, they found 65.9 per cent of non care-experienced children in Year 9 thought they were likely to go to university compared with 45.2 per cent of children who were previously or currently in care.
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