Who cares after young people leave care?
“They come from a system where they are supposed to be looked after and it feels like they leave the system and they just get left and thrown away.”
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Jackie Long is social affairs editor and presenter for Channel 4 News. Jackie Long is Channel 4 News Social affairs editor and presenter. She joined the programme in 2011, following more than two decades at the BBC. Most recently she…
“They come from a system where they are supposed to be looked after and it feels like they leave the system and they just get left and thrown away.”
It costs more to keep a child in care than the fees for Eton, but the average care leaver still faces poor educational achievement and higher rates of mental health issues or imprisonment.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that Shaun Wright is a man who takes a while to work out what is the best, the right thing to do.
Some of the biggest and boldest promises being made by the Scottish yes campaign are on welfare – but can Scotland afford to be fairer for those on benefits?
Rachel Reeves’ optimism and excitement are perhaps a little premature, even after today’s government defeat in parliament over reform of the spare room subsidy.
Not much has changed since last week’s Rotherham child sex abuse report. But do we really need any more information before introducing meaningful change?
The most shocking aspect of today’s Rotherham report is the sheer scale: 1,400 children exploited in a decade and a half.
Robert Pattinson – who’s said to be worth an estimated $27m – is quick to realise that there’s not always much sympathy for people living in the public eye.
Michael Low, a 19-year-old student, is in the no camp; trainee solicitor Kayleigh Waugh will vote yes for independence in September. Watch their exchange here.
They were widows. They were bereaved mothers, sisters and friends. But women in the first world war were so much more too.
There has been no fury and no barracking – but in the House of Lords ferocity belies what is being said. The debate? The right to die.
With the assisted dying bill due to be debated on Friday, what impact will Lord Carey’s controversial intervention make?
Started in the 1970s, the Paedophile Information Exchange is a window on a world 40 years ago which may hold vital clues to today’s investigations.
8,000 children under the age of 18 have been accused of sexually abusing another child over the past two years, offences including serious sexual assault and rape.
Two reports attacking major areas of the government’s planned benefits reforms suggest there may come a point when the universal credit policy has to be redrawn.