Research evidence suggests that: a 10% of young people who have been in care go on to become young prisoners b looked after children are 10 times more likely to be excluded from school than their peers c of young women leaving care, 25-30% are parents d young people leaving care have a 1 in 10 chance of become homeless e recent government figures show an improvement in the educational attainment of looked after children.
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Panos Vostanis (2003) studied this question.