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  • Improving support for young people when they first leave care

    This paper highlights care leavers’ experiences of accessing support across a range of different areas. It also sets out actions different government departments should take to improve support for these young people as they make the transition to early adulthood.

    Parliamentary briefing
  • Autumn Budget 2024 Parliamentary briefing

    This briefing provides an overview of the changes Barnardo’s believes are needed to ensure children are safer, happier, healthier and more hopeful, and the extent to which the Budget addressed these matters.

    Parliamentary briefing
  • Briefing: Renters’ Rights Bill - House of Commons, Second Reading

    As currently drafted the Renters’ Rights Bill provides no additional protection for young people leave foster care or residential care homes. We believe the Bill should be amended to provide specific support for care leavers seeking to rent in the private sector.

    Parliamentary briefing
  • A Recipe for Success

    A recipe for success: How do children and young people want to access food in their communities? A joint report from Barnardo's and Co-op.

    Policy report
  • Newport - Barnardo’s Strategic Partnership Evaluation

    Evaluation of impact & learning from a Strategic Partnership developed in 2011 by Newport City Council and Barnardo’s Cymru, providing family support services to children, young people and families where children are on the 'edge of care'

    Evaluation report
  • What it’s like to grow up in poverty in 2024

    This report focusses on how poverty affects families’ ability to afford food and fuel, with insight from 116 Barnardo’s practitioners who have been delivering vital support to children, young people, and families in need.

    Policy report
  • Children’s services spending, 2011-2023

    The data in this report shows that increasing many local authorities are finding that they are having to prioritise funding on late intervention intensive services for children in care, rather than early help support. 

    Policy report