The report also calls for structural inequality between women and men to be addressed, saying that Ireland must find a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

BRIT Award winner Sam Fender resumed his People Watching tour earlier this month after dates in the UK and Ireland, and he's now said to have been joined by his partner ...

The Labour Government’s changes to the welfare system will mean that some of society’s most vulnerable people will be “seriously impacted”, according to a social security law researcher.

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 ...