By Julie Selwyn for Exchange Wales
Since 2017, we have been asking children and young people (age 4 – 18 years old) who are looked after to complete online surveys on how they feel their lives are going. Currently, there is no national collection of children and young people’s views on their wellbeing. National measures tend to focus on negatives and do not tell us whether children feel they are being enabled to flourish in care. The surveys were designed with and by children and ask about four areas: relationships, rights, resilience and recovery. Surveys are commissioned by local authorities to help them hear what children in their care have to say about their experiences.
