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How best can we help young care leavers transition positively to adult life?

Making the transition to adult life is a difficult time for most young people, but especially for those leaving care who may not have enjoyed the stability and support of their own family.

Care leavers must often cope with living independently at a young age and can face the future feeling vulnerable and alone, without the necessary financial support to move into safe accommodation, enter further or higher education, find satisfying employment or achieve good health and a positive sense of well-being, never mind achieve their aspirations and ambitions.

Seeking to rectify this, CCLA and UK Community Foundations have launched a programme to support care leavers to achieve their aspirations. Over £1m per year over the next three years will fund a range of practical support aimed at tackling these significant social challenges. The Local Authorities’ Mutual Investment Trust, a shareholder of CCLA, representing the interests of local authorities in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, is stumping-up half of the funds; local community foundations have raised the other half; and every project must involve their local authority. CCLA - collaborating with local authorities for a Better World because healthy investment markets depend upon healthy communities.

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