Case study: Young People from a Public Care Background: Pathways to Education in Europe (YiPPEE)

YiPPEE was a multi-national team research project undertaken between 2008 and 2010 with funding from the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme and coordinated from Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU), Institute of Education (IOE), University of London, UK. The research proposal was developed from two previous research grants, one on the experiences of young people who had been in care as children and were at university at the point of interview ('By Degrees'), and the other on the views about and experiences of two groups of disadvantaged young people in accessing and using health, welfare and other services. One group were or had recently been in local authority care, and the other had multiple social disadvantages in their lives ('Young People and Services'). The research partnership, from Denmark, Hungary, Spain, Sweden and the UK, drew on the coordinator's experience of participation in an EU FP 5 project Care Work in Europe (2001-2005) and other cross-national European projects.