Care Leavers' Association

Our Mission and Values

The Care Leavers' Association is a not-for-profit organization, run by care leavers for care leavers. All individuals over the age of 18 with experience of being in care are entitled to full membership. We work for the benefit of all care leavers, of any age.

Our Purpose

To end the economic and social disadvantage of those who were in care by achieving significant, positive change.

Our Vision

Care leavers fully represented and participating at all levels of economic, social and public life.

Means of Achieving Our Purpose:

• Provision of an arena where care leavers can work together to achieve common goals;
• Supporting care leavers who have suffered neglect or abuse;
• Helping with access to childhood case records, so that care leavers may understand their past;
• Provision of other support and information services to care leavers;
• Advocating for the improvement of leaving-care provision, so that current and future care leavers may enjoy better life outcomes;
• Highlighting discrimination when it occurs, so that care leavers may enjoy the same rights and opportunities as others;
• Challenging negative stereotypes, so that care leavers do not suffer from the ignorance of others;
• Promoting, conducting and publishing research so as to raise public awareness of the needs of care leavers.