Díaz Esterri, JorgeJuanas Oliva, Ángel deGoig Martínez, Rosa MaríaGarcía Castilla, Francisco Javier2025-03-052025-03-052021-08-07Díaz-Esterri, J., De-Juanas, Á., Goig-Martínez, R., & García-Castilla, F. J. (2021). Inclusive Leisure as a Resource for Socio-Educational Intervention during the COVID-19 Pandemic with Care Leavers. Sustainability, 13(16), 8851. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131688512071-1050https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168851https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/26036La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Sustainability, 13(16), 8851, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168851. The registered version of this article, first published in Sustainability, 13(16), 8851, is available online at the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168851.The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a reduction in leisure activities involving human contact. Social isolation has increased, particularly amongst vulnerable individuals with a fragile support network, as is the case with young people who have left care. The aim of the present research was to identify socio-educational proposals and interventions implemented during the pandemic pertaining to leisure as a form of promoting social inclusion of these young people. To this end, a qualitative study was carried out in which twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with young people who had left care system, in addition to fifteen interviews with professionals working with this group when delivering socio-educational interventions. Discourse analysis revealed that isolation due to the health crisis had greater repercussions in normalised settings in which leisure activity was reduced with this increasing risk of social inclusion amongst these young people. Proposals and experiences emerging from this setting provide evidence that socio-educational interventions targeting leisure facilitate social inclusion. In this sense, future lines of research are suggested to optimise the outcomes of socio-educational interventions within this group.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess53 Ciencias Económicas::5312 Economía sectorial::5312.04 Educación58 Pedagogíaartículoleisure timeCOVID-19care leaverstransition to adulthoodsocial inclusion