‘WE DON’T GET A GREAT START IN LIFE WHEN WE TURN 18 AND LEAVE CARE’
Jun 20, 2022
4 minutes
Words: Eve Livingston
Illustration: Lou Kiss
Casey Armstrong was 14 when she first entered foster care, and 18 when she left and became independent. At 19, she suffered problems with her physical and mental health which left her unable to work. “That’s when I started to experience how bad the Universal Credit system really is,” says Armstrong, now 22 and living in Loughborough, where she studies at college. “It’s a bad system in general, but there are layers upon layers of how it can particularly affect care-experienced people.”
Now, alongside a group of other care-experienced young people and supported by Lloyds Foundation and the Learning and Work Institute,
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