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Category
Stable Homes, Built on Love: disability and inclusion
This 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 as such.
Stable Homes, Built on Love: Building strong and loving relationships
A session focused on Mission 1 of ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’: By 2027, every care-experienced child and young person will feel they have strong, loving relationships in place.
Stable Homes, Built on Love: LGBTQ+ identity
This 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
This consultation 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.
New survey co-produced with care leavers reveals a steep decline in well-being after leaving care
Results of the survey found that about a quarter of care leavers reported low life satisfaction compared with only 3% of their peers in the general population.
How 16- and 17-year-olds feel they should be supported
In this 2023 video, Linda Briheim-Crookall, Head of Policy and Practice at Coram Voice, shares findings from the Bright Spots Programme.
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.
What is Bright Spots and what does it tell us about children in care?
Susanna Larsson discusses what we’ve learned from the Bright Spots Your Life, Your Care survey, and what this means for local authority practice.
Promoted Resource
10,000 Voices: The views of children in care on their well-being report
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.