Social Work.Vulnerable Children.Care Leavers.Transition from Care

This article deals with the little-studied problems of social work interventions in the situation of young people preparing to leave children's homes and enter the natural social environment. The situation of young people leaving children's homes is difficult, as evidenced by studies showing a higher risk of social problems for these people, while the young (emerging) adulthood itself is considered a risky and vulnerable period (European Expert Group, 2012Lumos, 2017; Frimpong-Manso, 2018). Young people who are in the phase of transition, i.e. leaving the children's home, often carry the burden of negative personal experience from their early age andfrom how society reacts to their institutional past (Fransson, Store, 2011). In the alternative care system intheCzech Republic, placement in a children's home is secondary to family care. Social work with vulnerable young people in children's homes has a specific position, as it focuses mainly on the performance of indirect social work.