Extra help for children in care
Updated on 21 June 2007
Extra measures to help improve the future life chances of children taken into care are to be unveiled by ministers.
Education Secretary Alan Johnson, who narrowly avoided being taken into care himself when orphaned as a young child, will announce a series of proposals, which are likely to include a bursary for university education, salaries for foster parents, the right for children to remain in care after 16, and measures to stop them being repeatedly moved between foster homes.
Care leavers are more than twice as likely not to be in education, employment and training by the age of 19, official statistics show.
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