Setting Up: A Place to Call Home
'Setting Up: A Place to Call Home' (March 2009) is the most comprehensive study published to date on the real cost of purchasing essential items for an unfurnished flat together with comparisoms from 126 local authhorities in England.
The report finds that nearly 80% of authorities surveyed pay less than £1600. The amount recommended in 2005 by A National Voice for the Setting up Home grant was £2000. 4.5% pay under £1,000 and 0.9% £500 or less.
This new report, based on a shopping survey undertaken by young people in England and Wales, indicates that at 2009 prices £2,500 is a realistic amount for a leaving care grant.
Read the full report here. Setting Up: A Place to Call Home
Life After Care
Life After Care, a joint initiative of The Care Leavers Foundation, QA Research and Children and Young People Now magazine was based on a national study of care leavers' views conducted for National Care Leavers' Week 2008. It showed that too many care leavers are still experiencing the same lack of support, premature transitons and risk factors for social exclusion as we have been hearing about for many years.
Read the full report here. Life After Care
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