'We're expected to fail': the care leavers trying to challenge stigma

Project Positive aims to counter the assumptions that can hold back care leavers

Does society value care? Jemima, Kelly and Tory – the determined, capable and articulate care leavers I posed this question to – don’t think it does.

They believe that we do the opposite: we judge young people leaving care, which harms their chances in life just as much as the circumstances that took them into care in the first place.

Related: 'There's a lot of stigma': why do so few care leavers go to university?

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