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Great to speak with @FelicityHannah earlier on @BBCRadio4 @Moneybox (alongside the fab @CWilson200 and others) about financial support for young adults leaving care.

You can listen back here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

https://twitter.com/FelicityHannah/status/1481309395170516992

Inevitably there's never enough time to cover everything on a topic in under 30 minutes, so a few important points I may or may not have had the time to cover on the air below...

After a fab 3+ years with @Become1992, sad to say that this week will be my last week!

I've learned absolutely loads in my time here and owe a huge amount of gratitude to everyone who's shared their knowledge, time and support.💜 Very excited to be starting a new external affairs role with the brilliant @kinshipcharity on Monday next week.

Particularly glad to be staying in the children and families policy space and continue campaigning alongside many familiar faces when I'm there!

Thread time again. 🧵

New annual DfE stats are out on children in care and care leavers today from the SSDA903 collection. I haven’t been on Twitter much recently, but folks seemed to find this helpful last year so…

…e-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistic… The big message: there was a pandemic and turns out it had a significant impact on national trends in children’s social care.

Almost everything for the year ending 31 March 2021 needs a ‘Covid lens’ so we don’t draw too many year-on-year conclusions which won’t be maintained.

Thread time. 🧵

1/ New annual DfE stats are out on children in care and care leavers today from the SSDA903 collection.

…e-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistic…

You'll notice the new EES dashboard which makes exploring them at a glance much easier!

I wanted to share a few key things... 2/ As expected, there's been an increase in the number of children in care, up by 2% from 2019 to 80,080.

That's a little lower than the estimate (81,700) made in @ADCStweets's recent interim report: adcs.org.uk/safeguarding/a…