Care Leaver Deaths: Our Response 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 scandalous. If a parent Why the numbers matter For… Read More
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