Anela Anwar, the head of a charity for children in care and young care leavers, calls for greater support across housing, health, education and employmentAt Become, the national charity for children in care and young care leavers, we agree with your editorial that the government’s recent offer of free eye tests and prescriptions for care leavers is a welcome step in strengthening support for those leaving care (The Guardian view on care leavers: responsibility for looked-after children doe

When even Poundland and charity shops are closing, we’re near a point of no return. But there is hopeOver Christmas, thousands of people must have had much the same experience: a trip to see friends or relatives somewhere familiar, and the realisation that a once-thriving town centre is dangerously close to the economic point of no return, and a future of eerie silence.The massed emptying-out of places has been going on since the crash of 2008, but the latest chapter of the story is dramat