Judy Sebba with the Children’s Minister and care leavers at the launch.
The Children's Minister Edward Timpson MP has launched an Oxford research centre that sets out to improve the lives of foster children and young people in care. The Rees Centre for Research in Fostering and Education, based in the Department of Education, is a dedicated research centre looking at how children and young people in foster care can be helped to succeed at school. The Rees Centre is named after Jan Rees, founder and Non-Executive Director of Core Assets. Core Assets, a major provider of children's services in the UK and internationally, is giving financial support to the centre. University staff from the Department of Education joined Core Assets to welcome care leavers and carers to the launch event. Centre Director Professor Judy Sebba said: 'Existing research shows there is a huge gap in educational attainment when comparing the GCSE grades of looked after children with the general population. We need to raise the expectations in schools, and support foster carers so they in turn support their fostered children's education.
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