{"id":765,"date":"2014-09-30T14:25:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T13:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/?p=765"},"modified":"2015-07-22T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T14:25:48","slug":"care-leavers-need-a-strong-emotional-support-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/2014\/09\/30\/care-leavers-need-a-strong-emotional-support-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Care leavers need a strong emotional support network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by the author, Natasha Adley, 30th September 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/social-care-network\/2013\/dec\/12\/care-leavers-strong-emotional-support-network\">The\u00a0article<\/a> explores\u00a0the fact that despite &#8220;the role of family and social relationships&#8221; and &#8220;emotional and behavioural support&#8221; both being in the pathway plan set out as a requirement in the\u00a0Leaving Care Act (2000), the focus remains on offering financial and practical support, with elements such as accommodation, education and training. While these are clearly important, there remains a gap in offering emotional support, which is vital if\u00a0young people\u00a0are prepared not only for independence, but interdependence.<\/p>\n<p>During these uncertain times, it has never been more important to ensure young people leaving care without the support of a family are helped to develop an emotional support network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article discusses the importance of ensuring young people leaving care are given emotional support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[5791,13502],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}