Young people’s experience of leaving care
We ran a series of focus groups meeting with young people based at Burton’s Orchard in Taunton. The aims of these groups were to explore young people’s experience of leaving care and to involve them in starting to plan their own consultation with other care leavers.
Key findings
The group feel they would like more support with:
- Gaining employment or training
- Budgeting, cooking and other independent skills
- Moving on from leaving care
- Support when cases are to be closed with social services
- Parenting skills
- Someone else to talk to other the social services.
This report was produced by the previous Healthwatch Somerset service provider, The Care Forum.
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Young people’s experience of leaving care
