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Abstract: This paper is a condensed version of a study entitled “Beyond 18: Leaving Child Care Institutions - Supporting Youth Leaving Care: A Study of Aftercare Practices in Five States of India”, conducted and published in 2019 by Udayan Care, a charitable organisation, with support from UNICEF India and Tata Trusts. This research involved the participation…
Through the two-year project ‘Leaving Care – An Integrated Approach to Capacity Building of Professionals and Young People’, SOS Children’s Villages, in collaboration with international project partners, aimed to train care professionals in how to apply a child rights-based approach in their work with young people leaving care and worked to strengthen support networks for young care leavers.
Building on previous findings
Supporting young people who have grown up in alternative care is essential so that these young people can lead independent lives.…
This case study seeks to summarise the policy priorities of the four UK nations for care leavers, review outcomes for which data is publicly available, and discuss a number of areas where policy differences can be identified. The paper reviews legislative and policy frameworks in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland and compares outcomes data for care leavers across those four UK nations, highlighting policy differences. The paper ends with four main conclusions regarding care leaver policy in the four UK nations.
During the EU co-funded project "Prepare for Leaving Care" (2017-2018) a training for care professionals was developed and delivered together with young people with care experience. This video shares the views of the Croatian partner's trainers, young people and care professionals involved in the training.
This chapter’s authors argue that social policy on leaving care is a critical resilience process for promoting care leavers’ successful transition toward emerging adulthood. Care leaving literature has given limited attention to the wider policy contexts in which care leavers make this transition. This chapter, from the book Leaving Care and the Transition to…
Introduction
The move to independent living is challenging for any young person, requiring the exercise of many new skills and navigation of a range of social institutions with which they may be unfamiliar. A successful transition to independence relies on a young person’s possession of considerable personal, financial and social resources. Young people leaving out-of-home care often lack the economic advantages and social connectedness of their peers. They may also compare poorly to their peers in terms of their emotional or general development (Cashmore and Paxman 2007). Young people…
This publication from SOS Children's Villages and CELCIS describes the two-year project 'Prepare for Leaving Care,' which aimed to "embed a child rights based culture into child protection systems which improves outcomes for children and young people in particular in the preparation for leaving care," with youth participation at the heart of all activities. The report…
This Training Manual seeks to raise awareness of the content of the Prepare for Leaving Care: Practice Guidance, build knowledge and skills to support young people through the process of leaving care and help trainees to understand and develop some of the tools which are helpful in the leaving care process. It was produced as part of the …
This guide from Coram Voice in the UK provides guidance to youth leaving or aging out of the foster care system, including informing care-leavers of their rights. The guide is aimed at preparing youth to transition to successful independent living. The document offers a flowchart to help care leavers identify their eligibilities and rights and explains the services and programs available to them, including financial and housing services. It also includes terms and definitions ("jargon buster") and a list of resources and useful contacts.
Abstract
Due to the high instances of young people in care becoming homeless after leaving care, the study I undertook for my PhD in design research explored how an intervention could be co-designed to support young people and leaving care workers (LCWs) to share and elicit views about where a young person could live when they leave care. This article describes the methodology I worked through to re-design this interaction and why I think this approach resulted in positive outcomes for the people who tested the new interaction.