A shortage of staff to support young people with SEN (Special Educational Needs) who are about to leave school is "off the scale," the chair of Stormont's Education Committee has said. Nick Mathison ...

A toolkit designed to help schools create more inclusive, supportive environments for children-in-care is to be launched.

A woman who spent her childhood in the care system has called for additional supports to "give care leavers a chance" to ...

In Northern Ireland, around one-in-ten of all Universal Credit (UC) claimants are aged between 16 and 24, while in general, ...

The Department of Health today published a statistical bulletin summarising information on care leavers aged 16-18 in ...

Aaron Murphy — aka Rebel — is a teenager who raps about life in care and has clocked up hundreds of thousands of views online ...

The City of Doncaster Council will introduce a guaranteed interview scheme for care leavers to assist young people with care experience into employment. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription ...

The new project allows Staffordshire businesses to support care leavers in different ways, ranging from guaranteeing job interviews, to annual contributions to a bursary fund, or guaranteed job offers ...

From it, Doherty has a half-chance at the back post but can’t get it across the goal. Subs for Ireland, Taylor for Azaz, Ferguson for Parrott, Sykes for Johnston. 67 mins: Another stoppage as ...

It’s estimated one in five care leavers also experience financial difficulties, who often struggle with isolation and mental health challenges, so work experience opportunities that have been ...

The Bursary Fund is an independently managed fund (by the Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire) that supports care leavers to access funding to support them into or in work. The ...