ABSTRACT
The idea for this special issue of the journal arose from a cross-national research
project funded under the European Union Seventh Framework Program on Youth
and Social Inclusion. The five-country project, known by the acronym YiPPEE
(young people in public care*pathways to education in Europe), focused on the post-compulsory education of young men and women who had been looked after
away from home as children, and was coordinated by the England team based at
the University of London Institute of Education (Jackson & Cameron, 2011). The
five countries forming the YiPPEE partnership were chosen to represent different
welfare regimes, and the hypothesis was that these would significantly differentiate
the educational opportunities and outcomes of children and young people in care,
although this was only partly borne out by the results. Four of the papers in this issue
of EJSW are based on research by the YiPPEE national teams. The England findings
are reported elsewhere (Cameron et al., 2012; Jackson & Cameron, 2012) and in two
forthcoming books.
