Publisher's Synopsis
This report is based on a study of 20 young people in North Yorkshire who, after being looked after by the local authority, moved into the world of work and/or training. It considers care leaver's ability to engage in education, training and employment by reference to their "care history", social support network, the process of making decisions about education, training and employment, and the wider context of their lives.;The report outlines the multiple disadvantages faced by such young people including: the traumas experienced by the several moves they have had to make at times of crisis; the physical, emotional and sexual abuse that many of them will have suffered; disrupted education and low educational achievement which has happened by virtue of the many disruptions they have experienced; the very tenuous support networks available to them and a lack of trusted adult figures; poor physical and mental health; drug use; and the offending histories of many of the care leavers.
