Parsons, Sam;
Schoon, Ingrid;
(2023)
Economic activities of care leavers and children of care leavers: employment, education and training (EET) disadvantages over the life course.
(CLS Working Paper
2023/3).
UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies: London, UK.
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Abstract
Relatively little is known about the long-term economic activities of care leavers and their attachment to the labour market, and even less about the education and employment outcomes of the children of care leavers. Guided by assumptions of life course theory, this study investigates the association between out-of-home care (OHC) experience and time spend in employment, education or training (EET) from the end of compulsory school leaving age (age 16) to mid adulthood (age 46). Drawing on a national representative cohort study, the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), we identify cohort members with direct OHC experience, indirect OHC experience (those whose mothers were in care), and those with no care experience in their family. We find that cohort members with direct or indirect OHC experience acquired fewer qualifications and spent fewer months in EET than their peers without OHC experience. For those with direct OHC experience these differences remain after controlling for socio-economic family background and individual characteristics. Although the evidence suggests that the disadvantages associated with OHC experience can spill over into the second generation, the findings also show that a considerable number of cohort members with direct or indirect OHC experience returned to education between age 26 and 46, and that the majority were continuously attached to the labour market. There is thus considerable heterogeneity in development. The findings highlight the need to support education, the transition to employment and life-long learning for care leavers and their children beyond compulsory schooling and into the adult years.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Economic activities of care leavers and children of care leavers: employment, education and training (EET) disadvantages over the life course |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/working_papers/economic-acti... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Out-of-home care, Intergeneration Transmission, Persistent Disadvantage, EET, Resilience |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10216703 |
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