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Kara - Reducing the Unnecessary Criminalisation of Care-experienced Young People
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Drive Forward Foundation a charity that focusses on helping care-experienced young people get into fulfilling and sustainable employment. In order to do that we need to know what is the care system to truly understand what it means to be care-experienced and how we can best support our young people.
Listen to Kara one of our Policy Forum members about their campaign to reduce the unnecessary criminalisation of care-experienced young people:
Children aged 16 and 17 living in children’s homes are at least 15 times more likely to be criminalised than other children of the same age.
The Howard League for Penal Reform
Through her lived experienced, Kara explains why this campaign is so important, the successes they've had in the 3 years it's been running and her future hopes.
Read more about their work and take a look at the London wide protocol - the document that's bringing together the London Metropolitan Police, social workers, local authorities and other charity organisations.
If you want to learn more about Drive Forward check out our website.
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