The project will consult professionals and children in care. Interviews will be conducted in local authorities that have already developed a children-in-care council, those yet to establish one and those currently developing a council.
Researchers will also map existing provision of these councils across the capital and identify and share examples of best practice.
The research is due to be published later this summer.
A study by CYP Now found that one in 10 local authorities is yet to set up a children-in-care council, despite it being three years since the Care Matters reforms were launched.
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