The system is not failing by accident, it is failing by design, youth unemployment tsar says.

More than 40 per cent of young people leaving care are not in work or education, prompting a warning from the youth employment tsar of a “system failure”.

Striking data reveals youths in England who have been in care are three times more likely to be unemployed and not in training.   This then becomes entrenched as they move through life, with care leavers also more likely to remain unemployed as they age.