About us
T.W.E. is a collective of care-experienced adults, Young People, Practitioners, and Professionals who are passionate about helping care-experienced Young People and those from low-income backgrounds prosper.
Collectively, we have over 40 years’ experience of working in this field. The Winfluence Exchange was created to challenge the poor education, employment and health outcomes Young People from these backgrounds experience annually.
We offer Young People an opportunity to reignite their interest in working by providing worthwhile reasons to get out of bed.
This is why we do it-The Problem
The House of Commons Committee report, ‘Educational poverty: how children in residential care have been let down and what to do about it’ published July 2022 sets out the disproportionate impact of poor educational and employment outcomes for looked after children:
- At Key Stage 2, for reading, writing, and mathematics, only 37% of looked-after children reached expected standards, compared to 65% of non-looked-after children.
- Just 7.2% of looked-after children achieved the grade 5 ‘good pass’ threshold in English and mathematics GCSEs, compared to 40.1% of non-looked-after children.
- Just 2% of care leavers go on to do an apprenticeship.
- 41% of 19–21-year-old care leavers are not in education, employment or training (NEET). 22% of care leavers aged 27 are in employment compared to 57% of others, and even when they are in employment there is on average a £6,000 pay gap.
It is our firm belief that “[institutionalised] interventions alone, cannot adequately address the scale and scope of the problem, creating better outcomes requires raising ambition. Raising ambition is a difficult metric to quantify, but it is the very essence of what needs to be done”.
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