A report, produced by Cardiff University research centre CASCADE in collaboration with the What Works for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) initiative, found expectations of higher education attendance decreased as these care experienced young people got older.
The new analysis of the Next Steps data, which follows the progress of a group of young people born between 1989 and 1990 in England, was supplemented by face-to-face interviews with 23 care-experienced young people.
The research reveals those young people who thought in Year 9 they were likely to apply to a higher education provider (HEP) were much less likely to be in higher education aged 20 if they were care-experienced.
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