Foster Care
This pioneering and 'beautiful' idea can help keep young care leavers from falling into homelessness
![Care leaver Bayley Tubman with her 'aunties'](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BT.-18th-May-2023a-1.jpg?w=768)
This pioneering and 'beautiful' idea can help keep young care leavers from falling into homelessness
Lifelong Links helps young people like Bayley Tubman make the shift from care to adulthood and it is being extended with £30m of government funding. But the charity behind the programme say it’s needed across the whole of the country
Should care experience be a protected characteristic? Care leavers speak out on status debate
![A group of diverse people sit in a circle, in a support group formation](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Untitled-design-22.png?w=768)
Should care experience be a protected characteristic? Care leavers speak out on status debate
Scotland's promise to care experienced children shows how politics can give us hope
![a young child is hugged from behind by a parental figure](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Untitled-design-14.png?w=768)
Scotland's promise to care experienced children shows how politics can give us hope
Family court sees trauma every day. Here's how we can help struggling parents break the cycle
Family court sees trauma every day. Here's how we can help struggling parents break the cycle
How privatisation of foster care is turning vulnerable children into money-making commodities
How privatisation of foster care is turning vulnerable children into money-making commodities
'This is the reality': Children in care being forced to move at Christmas to save councils money
![teen walks away into nightime cityscape](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Carousel-images-8.png?w=768)
'This is the reality': Children in care being forced to move at Christmas to save councils money
200,000 people liked a picture of my Christmas tree. It was cool, but brought difficult memories
![Christmas tree being decorated](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1594_Care-at-Christmas_Sophia-Hall-scaled.jpg?w=768)
200,000 people liked a picture of my Christmas tree. It was cool, but brought difficult memories
Care leavers find it much harder to get a job – but any company would be lucky to have us
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Care leavers find it much harder to get a job – but any company would be lucky to have us
Care leavers often struggle to find a home. Here's an idea that gives them a fighting chance
![Illustration of two hands and a small person taking a key](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1580_care-leavers-cr-Lou-Kiss-copy.jpg?w=768)
Care leavers often struggle to find a home. Here's an idea that gives them a fighting chance
'I got a letter saying I had a six-year-old son I knew nothing about. One of us had to grow up'
![Si Mack performs his new show, kid, at BEAF Festival in Bournemouth.](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Si-Mack-Tattoo.-Image-©️-Roz-Pike-jpg.webp?w=768)
'I got a letter saying I had a six-year-old son I knew nothing about. One of us had to grow up'
Meet the young, care-experienced theatre-makers breaking stereotypes
![Belongings - a play that aims to challenge stigma faced by young people in care. Care Day](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Belongings-HERO.jpg?w=768)
Meet the young, care-experienced theatre-makers breaking stereotypes
The John Lewis Christmas advert is a powerful challenge to foster care stereotypes
![ohn Lewis Christmas advert: a young girl arriving at her new foster placement.](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/John-Lewis-Christmas-advert.jpg?w=768)