Country
United Kingdom

Company/Organisation
University College London

Bio
Claire Cameron is Professor of Social Pedagogy at Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, University College London. Claire began her career in residential care and, after qualifying as a social worker in 1987, in social work until 1992. Since then she has been a researcher specialising in studies of the children’s workforce, early childhood care and education, looked after children and young people, care leavers. She is particularly interested in the intersection of care and education and in the education of children in care and care leavers. Much of her work is cross-national and has a long standing interest in social pedagogy and the quality of life of young people in and leaving care. She was project coordinator of the first European study of further and higher education pathways for young people leaving care (Jackson and Cameron, 2014); and she ran two studies funded by SOS Children’s Villages International examining responses to care leavers and support for employment in international contexts. She is currently leading a study examining whether and how SOS Children’s Villages UK might develop domestic programmes, and is collaborating with Finnish and German colleagues on a study of the longer term trajectories for care leavers in their fourth decade.

1. Education And Employment Outcomes For Young People Leaving Care: An Undocumented And Invisible Problem?

1. Education And Employment Outcomes For Young People Leaving Care: An Undocumented Problem? - 03 Nov, 2017