Sentence examples for leave foster from inspiring English sources

As the backbench chairman of a parliamentary group on fostering and adoption, Timpson lobbied for the age at which young people leave foster homes to be raised from 18 to 21, and wrote a paper that showed educational outcomes were better for those who stayed on.

In the past, she would have been expected to leave foster care when she turned 18.

Talking with them, he learned that at 18 they had to leave foster care and fend for themselves.

The law, which required children to leave foster care at 18, provided a $900 monthly stipend to those who stayed in school and maintained good grades.

Shaqunna Duncan, a Bronx native who has sought the help of In the Spirit of the Children, a nonprofit group that helps children leave foster care, applied for public housing when she turned 21 last May.

New York City has reached an agreement on a proposed settlement of a lawsuit that claims the city allows older children to leave foster care only to become immediately homeless.

Better working between local authorities and independent fostering providers could make better use of the existing foster carer workforce, while better training and support for existing foster carers could help to reduce the percentage who leave fostering each year.

Leave fostered helpless rage, saying that Great Britain was under the thumb of "faceless bureaucrats".

Mr. Anderson said he tried to get the money to the children, but some had left foster care long ago.

"Then it became a silk-machine factory, and now it is transitional housing for kids leaving foster care".

The city is required by state law to supervise and assist in providing housing for people who have left foster care until they reach age 21.