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Research over the past three decades consistently shows poor outcomes in education and employment for young people leaving care in England. Evidence indicates lower levels of education attainment and post-16 participation for young people in and leaving care in comparison to other young people and suggests a lasting impact, with care experienced adults at greater risk of social exclusion, being overrepresented in marginalised groups such as the long-term unemployed, homeless and prison populations and adults with mental health difficulties. This

The most common goal of interventions that support youth from care in the transition to independent living is to help them to become relatively self-sufficient. It was in this context that a project was created to implement and evaluate group work strategies for this population. Two sources of information were used: the youths who participated in the program (n=31) and all the facilitators. The intent behind this research was not only to monitor the trajectory of the youth participants through the group process, but also to expose the workers who

This article deals with the definition of minimum quality criteria for professional intervention in leisure, training and work with young people in social difficulty, to establish good practices. It is the result of an investigation which is based on qualitative methodology and, more specifically, the Delphi technique as a strategy to collect information. This technique is based on the consultation of experts and professionals who issue their opinions cyclically on the subject to be treated until they reach a consensus.In the collection of data,

This articles aim is to provide specific information about a field that has been poorly and marginally addressed on research, the use of ICTs during leisure time by the most vulnerable youth and their socio-educational treatment. In order to do so an analysis of the information obtained from an ad hoc questionnaire has been made. This questionnaire was applied to a sample of 1.764 post-compulsory education students from all the Spanish regions, among which 493 were vulnerable. The outcomes show the use of ICTs by vulnerable youth is similar to the

Vulnerable youth in general are perceived as a group whose hierarchy of values differs from the whole of the population of young people. This article, based on our research, studies the immediate environment of young people and analyses the perception that families and teachers have of their values. The specific study takes as samples families that meet the criteria of vulnerability (n=393); non-vulnerable families (n=419) and teachers that teach different subjects to young people (n=516). The study analyses the degree of concern of these groups

The transition of young people into employment and training is a challenge in todayâ??s society, even among young people in situations of social vulnerability. In this project a study to review allocations on the study and the employment of vulnerable youth sample is presented. To do this, there has been an integrative research design that includes a quantitative and a qualitative study. For the former, an ad hoc questionnaire was applied to 493 vulnerable young people from all regions. For the second, interviews were conducted with nineteen young

International organizations emphasize the basic right of everyone to enjoy leisure because of the contribution it makes towards peoples self-realization. This article seeks to determine the specific features of the leisure of young people in vulnerable situations, by identifying its characteristics and the influence of passive leisure and the Internet. This is carried out through various interviews with key informants, such as young people in social difficulties and the social workers who work with them. A qualitative methodology has been used and

The basic aim of this work is to present a hitherto-unknown Manual Alphabet introduced by the Real Colegio de Sordo-mudos de Madrid [Royal Madrid School for the Deaf and Dumb] in 1805 for the instruction of their deaf students.That year saw a revival of attention to teaching of the deaf in Spain a pioneer in the education of deaf students in the 16th and 17th centuries with the creation of the Real Colegio de Sordo-mudos de Madrid under the auspices of the Sociedad Económica Matritense de los Amigos del País. This meant that a means of communicating

The Church as a Promoter of Vocational Training in the Basque Country and Navarre during FrancoismThe interest of the State in the vocational training within the Spanish educational system is a recent development. After several precedents, with varied ministerial dependence, this incorporation does not take place up to the General Law of Education (1970). Both public and private sectors took on this work to compensate for the disinterest of the State. The Church developed this educational level during the Francoism through the creation of numerous