Educational outcomes for foster youth and careleavers are dismal. In the United States, research has cumulatively shown that foster youth/careleavers are more likely to experience multiple school settings, attend poorer quality schools, and less likely to be involved in extracurricular school activi...

A life of independence is an exciting and anxious time for young people. This is even truer for young care leavers, who are expected to very rapidly acquire a level of maturity and self-reliance that will allow them to lead an independent life. What this means in practice is that they need to have...

“Supporting the educational needs of children and young people in foster care” Supervising social workers support the care of the placement but our children and young people spend half their time in school, five days a week, battling to overcome the obstacles they face in addition to those of t...