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Care Review: Focus on Stigma
In this video, Josh MacAlister and Professor Julie Selwyn consider the question: “Does the stigma of care prevent care experienced people from having a fair chance to flourish?"
Why social workers need to show children they care
2021 Community Care article by Lauren Parker about her experience with social workers.
“Time-poor, overstretched and changing too often” – children’s experiences of social workers.
2021 Community Care article by Linda Briheim-Crookall about children’s experiences of social workers.
10,000 voices webinar: Looked after children and young people’s views on their well-being
Webinar for Cascade providing an overview of the findings from the Your Life Your Care survey and what children in care said about their well-being.
An Evaluation of the Bright Spots Programme
This evaluation explores how local authorities had used the findings from the Bright Spots surveys to improve the lives of the children they look after.
New Belongings Programme: Baseline evaluation report
An independent evaluation of the New Belongings Programme funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
What Makes Life Good: Recommendations for Reviewing the Care System
Drawing on the voices of children in care and care leavers, this paper sets out Coram Voice’s position on the framework that should be used for a review of the English care system and our recommendations.
What Makes Life Good? Care leavers’ views on their well-being report
Children in care and care leavers told us how they feel about their lives and what they shared gives us an unprecedented insight into their subjective well-being.
I find myself at the ‘care-cliff’: is the system failing care leavers by abruptly ending support at 25?
2020 Community Care article by Care-Experienced Consultant Thuy Ly-Chambers on feeling “failed” by the care system after being “cut off and dismissed” during the pandemic upon turning 25.
Evaluation of Bright Spots Programme
This evaluation explored how local authorities have used findings from the Bright Spots surveys to improve the lives of the children they look after.