What?

East Riding arranged a dance workshop as part of a ‘fun day’. This was unexpectedly well received by the children and the East Riding decided to continue to offer sessions to build self-esteem.

Why?

Adolescent girls often feel very dissatisfied with their appearance and is associated with poorer mental health and low well-being.

Impact

Initially, the local authority held a ‘fun day’ to feed back the Bright Spots findings to their young people. As part of this day, they arranged a dance workshop with unexpected positive results with more young people joining in than anticipated.

The local authority has continued the dance sessions, boosting self esteem and
confidence.

She [dance teacher] came and undertook
some sessions with the Children in Care
Council. I think that was really positive
because young people that I didn’t think
would be part of that were standing up and
talking, … coming to the forefront actually
joining in, I thought they would just sit and
be part of the background. She was so
good with them, so positive.

Participation Manager

More joined in than I thought would and…for their emotional well-being, when we were looking at that we carried that on.

Participation worker