Professional Development for Chinese University Leaders: Collaboration, Not Competition

Abstract

This report, based on a survey of 100 care leavers and consultation with those who work with them, identifies where progress still needs to be made to improve outcomes. The overwhelming response from our consultation, and the message of this report, is that whilst there has been real progress for care leavers in England in recent years, the vast majority of spending and support has been focussed on the better-off care leavers, predominantly those with a stable foster care placement and who are able to remain in education. The care leavers who have not been targets of support – who have had the most unstable time whilst in care and who do not generally remain in education – are slipping through the cracks and experiencing unacceptably poor outcomes. By contrast, the Scottish Government has recently increased support to care leavers universally, allowing all care leavers – including those in residential care and who do not remain in education – to stay in care until 218 and to receive support until 26.9