Education for Social Inclusion: Can We Change the Future for Children in Care?

Children and young people who have been in care in the United Kingdom make up less than one per cent of the population, yet they account for half the inmates in young offenders’ institutions and a quarter of adult prisoners. Some estimates are that almost half of young women leaving care are pregnant or already have a child, and by 19 they are eight times more likely to be mothers than others in their age group. Two years after leaving care, 80 per cent of young people are unemployed; many ...