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April 2012
Young Person-led APPG a success!
30 Apr 2012
Young people descend on Westminster for April's young person-led All Party Parliamentary Group for Looked After Children and Care Leavers.
Running for children in care
13 Apr 2012
Read about Emma's training highs and lows as she prepares for the Royal Parks Half Marathon and why she's raising money for children in care.
March 2012
Is more support needed for children who run away or go missing from care?
26 Mar 2012
Parliamentary groups join forces to launch an inquiry into the support available to children who run away or go missing from care.
Government policies on access to further and higher education abandon care leavers to the whims of localism, says report
16 Mar 2012
New research from The Who Cares? Trust reveals that Government policies intended to support looked-after young people's access to further and higher education are failing to make an impact because a fragmentary, localist approach has confused young people and the professionals who work with them.
The Trust calls for Government to look wider than adoption
14 Mar 2012
In response to the Government’s Adoption Action Plan, published today, The Who Cares? Trust has expressed concerns that too heavy a focus on adoption risks ignoring tens of thousands of children and young people in care for whom adoption is not the right option.
Care leaves most looked-after children better off, study finds
12 Mar 2012
The majority of care leavers believe they are better off for having been taken into care, according to the latest report from the children's rights director for England.
Exclusive focus on adoption will not help majority of children in care
09 Mar 2012
Natasha Finlayson, Chief Executive of The Who Cares? Trust says that rather than adoption being promoted as a panacea, she would like to see more discussion on how to improve the experience of all children in the care system.
Money Matters: What money issues are young people in and leaving care facing?
05 Mar 2012
Looked-after children and care leavers working with The Who Cares? Trust think that debt and money issues are really important for young people in care, and want to campaign for better information and support.
February 2012
Children in care given little or no notice of placement moves
27 Feb 2012
More than half of children in care are given a week or less notice before being moved to a new placement.
Upcoming Events
May 2012
Bupa London 10,000
27 May 2012
The Bupa London 10,000 is presented by the London Marathon and is run on the course likely to be used for the 2012 Olympic Marathons.
October 2012
Royal Parks Half Marathon
07 Oct 2012
The Royal Parks Half Marathon has fast become one of the UK's most popular races.
Bupa Great South Run
28 Oct 2012
The Great South Run is Europe’s most popular 10 mile race, with 21,000 runners.
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