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Press Release: New practical guide for lawyers to help reduce the over-criminalisation of care experienced children and young adults

Leave a Comment / Blog, Events, Latest News, Policy Forum, Press release / By Juno Schwarz

Over the last couple of years, the Drive Forward’s Care Experienced Policy Forum has been working with youth justice experts to create a new guide for lawyers to use when representing care experienced young people. The guide has been completed in collaboration with the Transition to Adulthood Alliance, Child Rights & Youth Justice, Garden Court Chambers and the Youth Justice Legal Centre.

PRESS RELEASE welcoming government’s announcement that it will protect care leavers during Covid-19

Leave a Comment / Latest News, Press release / By Juno Schwarz

PRESS RELEASE Leading care leaver charity Drive Forward Foundation welcomes the government’s announcement that it will do more to protect care leavers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Martha Wansbrough, the founder of the Drive Forward Foundation, said: ‘Young people taken into the care system are some of the most vulnerable members of our society and so …

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We’re here to make a difference in the lives of young care leavers. Wherever they’re coming from, we’re on a mission to help open doors and give them the skills, confidence and inspiration to make some momentum and realise their full potential.