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Sheffield: Improving health services by raising GP’s awareness of care experience
Sheffield Care Leavers’ Union started conversations with local GPs and health service providers to improve services for care-experienced young people.
Just Do It: An event for young people in Sheffield to have fun and do activities
Young people wanted more chances to have fun and make friends. Sheffield set up ‘Just Do It’, an event to showcase local organisations and ways to get involved in fun things.
Sheffield: Care-experienced Voice and Influence workers to support coproduction
Sheffield created new paid roles for care-experienced young people to run training sessions with social workers and develop guidance packs for Health colleagues.
Amplify Awards 2024: Sheffield Speak Up Now – Comfy Cosy Crate project
Sheffield's Children in Care Council worked with local companies to build crates which include essential household items for young people to use as they moved home.
Integrating Bright Spots into Community Parenting Strategy
Sheffield have used their recent Bright Spots findings to structure their new Community Parenting Strategy. This means that what matters to children and young people in and leaving care is at the very centre of what they do as corporate parents.
Building a more creative school curriculum for children in care in Sheffield
In response to their Bright Spots survey, the virtual school in Sheffield worked to develop a more creative curriculum to challenge the stigma facing children in care.
Improving children and young people’s understanding of the care journey in Sheffield
In response to their Bright Spots survey, Sheffield Care Leavers Union simplified care and pathway plans so that young people know what is happening in their lives.
Improving the well-being of fostered children in Sheffield with Fostering Five
In response to their Bright Spots survey findings, Sheffield Fostering Service highlighted five areas to improve the wellbeing of fostered children
Promoting body positivity among children in care in Sheffield with a fashion show
Sheffield Children in Care Council organised a positive body image fashion show to encourage children to love themselves just the way they are.
Sharing Bright Spots survey findings in Sheffield
Sheffield developed a two-stage process for making sure their whole service understood and acted upon the findings of their Bright Spots survey