leavingcare.org

About us

The National Care Advisory Service (NCAS) focuses on improving young people’s transition from care. We are the national advice, support and development service for young people in and from care age 13-25), their corporate parents and those who support them.

NCAS was created in April 2008 by the bringing together of the National Leaving Care Advisory Service and the What Makes the Difference project  and is part of the larger young people’s organisation Catch22.


NCAS works at local, regional, national and EU levels to develop solutions based on good corporate parenting that include and empower young people, professionals and policy-makers to continually improve service quality and outcomes.We seek to provide opportunities, new experiences and skills development for young people in all our work.

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