Young people transitioning from out-of-home care to adulthood
Review of policy and program approaches in Australia and overseas
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To plan or not to plan: The internal conversations of young people leaving care
The purpose of this research is to characterise the internal conversations of individual young people in transition from state care, with a goal of supporting practitioners’ approaches to ‘pathway planning’, and contributing to theories of agency in emerging adulthood under conditions of long-term adversity. We used Margaret Archer’s theory of agency, in which internal conversations… -
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Convención Sobre los Derechos del Niño
Hace 25 años el mundo concibió un compromiso con todos sus niños, niñas y adolescentes: que los Estados, las comunidades y las familias haríamos todo lo que estuviera a nuestro alcance para promover y proteger sus derechos. La Convención sobre los Derechos del Niño plasma un consenso entre los diferentes sistemas jurídicos y las diversas… -
Young People Leaving Care: A Study of Costs and Outcomes
Every year, more than 6,000 young people formally leave the care of local authorities in England, most to establish independent lives as young adults in the community.1 In doing so, the burden of expectation placed upon their shoulders is large. As the evidence below suggests, these young people tend to make a series of overlapping… -
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Preparation for independent living
Today we face the situation that five million young people under the age of 25 cannot find a job. Many of them will miss opportunities because they lack the right qualifications or experience. Others will be forced to accept precarious positions in the labour market or short-term contracts that offer few opportunities to advance on…
