Young Care Leavers and Social Inclusion Guidelines Life After Institutional Care

In the 5 countries involved (Bulgaria, France, Italy, Latvia, Romania), the central project and scientific team collected the data that were necessary to build the matrix of guidelines, which – if applied – should increase the likelihood of social inclusion of child leaving state care.

1. Desk Analysis: relevant legislation, context and specific data (if any), services organisation and list of players;

2. Qualitative analysis:

2.1. giving out of 75 in-depth questionnaires (15 for each country) to the main actors in the social protection system, starting from those farthest from the subjects and proceeding inwards to the people most involved in the case (i.e., from the central decision makers, to the national coordinators, to the local decision makers, to the institution and education community managers, to the social workers and finally to the educators);

2.2. giving out of 125 in-depth questionnaires (25 for each country) to young people who have been out of the child protection system for at least two years, but for no longer than 5, and young people in the transition phase to adult life (recipients of specific social inclusion programmes).

3. Exchange and discussion activities with stakeholders and operators.