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“...it should be made that a young personcan’t leave care if <strong>the</strong>y haven’t got supportsin place.”Life Skills• Young people often have frequentplacements during <strong>the</strong>ir time in care andlearning basic life skills is often not apriority.• There are varying expectations fromcaseworkers, carers and young peopleabout what life skills are and when <strong>the</strong>yshould be taught, and by whom.• Provide more life-skills programs, with particular attentionto regional areas.• Review carer training to ensure that specialist courses aredeveloped in life-skill development for young people.“Young people transitioning from care needas much support as possible; everything fromfinding somewhere to live to what to wear tointerviews”.“You don’t have to start formally planningbefore 15, but young people should be taughtlife skills – just like o<strong>the</strong>r young people. Morelife skills training has to happen with carers”.“More mandatory training for foster carers.This training would include how to teachyoung people life skills, and helping to change<strong>the</strong> culture of foster care from carers seeing<strong>the</strong>ir role as a job, to that of a parent”16

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