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Stable Homes, Built on Love: youth advocacy
This in-person workshop with young people was part of the Amplify event in 2023. The workshop focused on advocacy.
Stable Homes, Built on Love: disability and inclusion
This in-person workshop with young people was part of the Amplify event in 2023. The workshop focused on exploring what disability and long term health conditions mean to children and young people and how services can best support children and young people who identify that they have a disability or long-term health condition.
Stable Homes, Built on Love: LGBTQ+ identity
The consultation session with young people focused on how social workers could best children and young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and queer.
Stable Homes, Built on Love: extending corporate parenting responsibilities
The consultation session with young people looked at extending corporate parenting responsibilities to public bodies – who should support children in care and care leavers and what they should do to support them.
Stable Homes, Built on Love: the Children’s Social Care National Framework
The consultion session with young people looked at the Children’s Social Care National Framework – what children’s social care will do and who will do it.
Keeping in Touch: looked after children and young people’s views on their contact arrangements
Professor Julie Selwyn and Shirley Lewis share important insights into children in care’s views on staying connected with family.
Promoted Resource
10,000 Voices: The views of children in care on their well-being
This Bright Spots report analyses responses from children in care aged 4- 18 years to the Your Life Your Care survey between 2016 and 2021. The report gives an insight into children in care’s subjective wellbeing and what they feel makes their lives good.
Place and purpose: what matters to care leavers?
Dr. Claire Baker shares key findings from Bright Spots' Your Life Beyond Care survey
Staying Connected webinar
A webinar exploring the Bright Spots Staying Connected report on looked after children and young people’s feelings about contact and family time.
Staying Connected: the views of looked after children and young people on their contact arrangements
This Bright Spots report collects the views of looked after children and young people on their contact arrangements. The findings and recommendations outline challenges to and importance of children in care staying connected with their parents, siblings and other people who are important to them.