ABSTRACT
This chapter explores international approaches to care experience by reviewing the results of our case study from England and Wales. In our NSW pilot study, several of our respondents discussed innovations in England and Wales that were leading to a decrease in criminalisation. As a result, we built into our study qualitative interviews with key informants from relevant criminal justice and social welfare agencies in the United Kingdom, including care leavers. The chapter provides an overview of the considerable momentum in the United Kingdom around addressing the criminalisation of children with care experience. This chapter details the changes in policing and the administration of OOHC and the resultant impact on the involvement of those in care in the criminal justice system. While not uniform, these changes reflect what is possible. This chapter draws together what the UK case study can offer the NSW context and, in doing so, the chapter enriches the NSW research by promoting further reflection on how decriminalisation pathways might be imagined.
