{"id":4882,"date":"2025-12-26T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2025-12-26T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:47:19","slug":"caring-for-care-leavers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/2025\/caring-for-care-leavers\/","title":{"rendered":"Caring for Care leavers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Christmas there are many young p<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/Leaving-Care-Christmas-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4876\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/Leaving-Care-Christmas-2-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/Leaving-Care-Christmas-2-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/Leaving-Care-Christmas-2.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a>eople who will be living on their own for the first time with little support or family around them as they are spending their first Christmas on their own after leaving the care system. To support the council care leavers team who check in and support these vulnerable young people Wakefield District Soroptimists took up a collection of small gifts which will be distributed by youth workers over the Christmas period. To find out more about the vital work of the care leavers team with 16-25 year olds in our district visit their website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wakefield.gov.uk\/children-and-families\/local-offer-to-care-leavers\">https:\/\/www.wakefield.gov.uk\/children-and-families\/local-offer-to-care-leavers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/Leaving-Care-Christmas-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4879\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/Leaving-Care-Christmas-1-160x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/Leaving-Care-Christmas-1-160x300.jpg 160w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/Leaving-Care-Christmas-1.jpg 545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Christmas there are many young people who will be living on their own for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":4879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Caring for Care leavers | News | Blog | Events | Wakefield and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wakefield and District : Blog &amp; News : Caring for Care leavers : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of Wakefield and District . 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