Month: August 2026

Supported by the CLA, Dr Lisa Cherry OBE has offered to host a community gathering that offers a gentle, collectively held space for care‑experienced people to acknowledge and honour the grief that has surfaced since the publication of the national review into care leaver deaths. This space brings people together in a circle of solidarity that centres collective grief, recognising that our grief is not individual pathology but a communal response to systemic failure. Through ritual, conversation and quiet moments of holding, the group will create a sense of belonging in the midst of sorrow, affirming that care experienced people’s lives matter and that those who are no longer with… Read More

Care Leaver Deaths: Our Response Warning: The content of this article could be upsetting. We welcome the Review into Care Leaver Deaths and appreciate the considered and empathetic way the co-chairs undertook the review. It has brought into sharp focus a crisis that the sector has long understood but government has repeatedly failed to address. The statistics are shocking — but they should not surprise anyone who knows how the leaving care system works in reality. Headlines The headline figures that care leavers are three to four times more likely to die than the general population and have a suicide rate potentially five times higher than the general population is… Read More