Place and purpose: what matters to care leavers?

Dr. Claire Baker shares key findings from Bright Spots’ Your Life Beyond Care survey

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Place and purpose: what matters to care leavers?

Dr. Claire Baker shares key findings from Bright Spots' Your Life Beyond Care survey

Published 22 July 2022 By Dr. Claire Baker

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.

Published 20 July 2022 By Linda Briheim-Crookall, Professor Julie Selwyn, Jonny Hoyle, Dechaun Malcolm

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.

Published 30 May 2022 By Dr Shirley Lewis, Prof. Julie Selwyn and the Bright Spots team

The Subjective Well-being of Children in Care of the State

A presentation delivered at the Well-being Research and Policy Conference focusing on national findings from the Bright Spots Programme.

Published 7 April 2022

The long view: What do children tell us about being in care?

In this video Professor Julie Selwyn, Professor of Education and Adoption University of Oxford, discusses evidence and research which contain lessons for the care system

Published 8 March 2022

Your Life Beyond Care: disability and stigma

In this video Dr. Claire Baker shares key findings from the Bright Spots 'Your Life Beyond Care' survey, focusing on stigma and disability

Published 23 February 2022

Your Life Beyond Care: do care leavers understand why they were in care?

In this video Dr. Claire Baker shares key findings from the Bright Spots 'Your Life Beyond Care' survey about whether care leavers feel that someone has explained why they were in care

Published 23 February 2022

Identity – Do care leavers understand why they were in care?

A video exploring care leavers' responses to the Bright Spots Your Life Beyond Care survey. More specifically, do they feel that someone has explained to them why they were in care?

Published 1 February 2022

Webinar: What matters to children in care and care leavers’ well-being?

This 2022 webinar from Research In Practice shares key learnings from the Bright Spots Programme so that professionals can better support children in care and care leavers.

Published 11 January 2022

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on care leavers’ well-being

This report compares the ‘What Makes Life Good?’ pre-pandemic data, to data from 2020 to 2021, since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Published 12 December 2021 By Anita Chandra, Sarah Taylor, Sam Shorto, Vanessa Patel, Lizzie Gilbert, Coram Impact and Evaluation Team