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• One in four children of UK care workers living in poverty, TUC finds

  01-11-2022 23:30
  Figure represents 220,000 children, with union adding many families of nurses and public transport workers also in crisisMore than one in four children with care worker parents are growing up in poverty, according to a report by Trades Union Congress, with the union warning of “rampant” hardship in households with key workers.The TUC said that 220,000 children – 28.4% – with at least one social care worker as a parent were in poverty, and said the number was on course to
  
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• The care system failed me, now it’s failing other children. That’s why I’m still fighting | Daniel Lavelle

  01-11-2022 16:03
  Too many young people are doomed to criminality, addiction and homelessness as provision is stripped to the boneI grew up in care, and spent some time homeless, but I eventually made it to university and became a journalist and author. Why is it that so few people in care share a similar journey? Instead, too many are in the criminal justice system, lost to addiction or off the map. It’s something I set out to explore in a video for the Guardian looking at the system and what’s chang
  
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• The care system failed me. What is it like for kids today?

  01-11-2022 12:59
  Daniel Lavelle is a journalist who spent some of his teenage years in the care system. He is also somewhat of an anomaly. Statistics show one in four people who leave care in the UK end up homeless. They are also likely to end up in a prison. In a special Guardian video Lavelle reflects on his experiences, and meets others who've been through the system to find out what is going wrong for some of the country's most vulnerable children. He also talks to those who've made it out the
  
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