What Matters and Who Matters to Young People Leaving Care

• Presents a new way about thinking about planning with care leavers (moving from the current ‘goal-orientated’ approach which fails the majority who feel future planning is futile)• A research-based book, but not ‘just more statistics’.• Relevant to practice and research focused on care-experienced young people experiencing multiple and compounded adversity and trauma.• A book in which we listen very closely indeed to what young people themselves say. • Accessible, but contains detailed and extensive theory, linked closely to implications for practice.• Based on an innovative research interview protocol, and a matched, finely detailed qualitative analysis methodology.