Abstract The post-compulsory educational pathways of young people who have spent some or all of their childhoods in local authority care varied. They are seven times less likely to attend university than their age contemporaries not in care. Even those with some qualifications at age 16 face difficulties in progression. Based on the English data from a European study of young people with a public care background, this paper sets out six pathways and investigates whether and how young people’s aspirations and goals for the short term were realised. The paper argues that among this group of young people who were in local authority care the dominant positioning is of self-responsibility for achieving plans, in line with individualist thinking. But such positioning is an overly optimistic picture; many barriers to the realisation of plans were also evident.

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改变命运？在英国照顾年轻人的义务后教育途径的抱负和实现

摘要在地方政府关怀中度过了部分或全部童年的年轻人，其义务教育后的教育途径各不相同。与未受照料的同龄人相比，他们上大学的可能性要低七倍。即使是那些具有16岁资格的人，也面临发展困难。基于欧洲对具有公共护理背景的年轻人的英语研究数据，本文提出了六种途径，并研究了年轻人是否实现了短期愿望和目标以及如何实现这些目标。该论文认为，在这一由地方当局照顾的年轻人中，占主导地位的是根据个人主义思想实现计划的自我责任感。但是这样的定位过于乐观了。