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Transitions from Care to Independence - Supporting Young People Leaving State Care to Fulfil Their Potential (Paperback)
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Transitions from Care to Independence - Supporting Young People Leaving State Care to Fulfil Their Potential (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Social Work
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This important book focuses on the critical role of educational
achievement for the wellbeing and success of vulnerable youth in
adulthood. It is concerned with three interconnected issues: the
support which is or should be afforded to youth ageing out of state
care to enable them to fulfil their academic potential; the
interdependence of social aspects of 'care' and educational
attainment for children growing up in state care; and the
conditions which are pre-requisite for transition to fully
autonomous adulthood, together with the implications of these for
the state's responsibilities to care leavers. These issues are
addressed through a review of international literature based on the
educational outcomes and life-chances of youth graduating from
state care, analysis of the findings of a three-year qualitative
study following the educational transitions of young people, and
the use of theoretical frameworks to explore the complexities of
children's experiences of the state care system. In doing so the
book balances predominantly needs-based discourses with a
children's right perspective, focusing on competence rather than
vulnerability and promoting the development of the skills needed
for autonomous adulthood. Reconceptualising Transitions from Care
to Independence should be considered essential reading for
researchers, practitioners and policy makers in the fields of
education, childhood studies and adoption and fostering services.
Additionally, the issues addressed are of wider relevance to youth
transitions to adulthood. Youth ageing out of care provide a
particularly insightful case study into the broader cohort of young
people entering the workforce in an era of a globalised economy and
austerity.
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