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Local Authority
Promoted Resource
Achieving 80% response rate in the Bright Spots Your Life Beyond Care survey
A presentation from Isle of Wight Council about the effective strategy they used to hear from as many of their young people as possible.
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Increasing children and young people’s involvement in the Bright Spots surveys
A presentation from Hertfordshire County Council about their project management approach to running the Bright Spots children in care survey.
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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.
Disability, disparity and demand
This Coram Voice report looks at what we do, and importantly do not know about children in and leaving care with a disability or long-term health condition in England.
Engaging non-verbal children
West Sussex supported a disabled young person to answer questions from the Your Life, Your care survey, by adapting questions into picture cards.
Stable Homes, Built on Love: building strong and loving relationships
This consultation session with young people focused on children in care and care leavers having and maintaining loving relationships with people who are important to them.
Stable Homes, Built on Love: participation workers
A session for workers who support participation and engagement within children’s social care to share what is working well and what the barriers are to good participation and engagement.
Stable Homes, Built on Love: Staying connected to family and friends, brothers and sisters
This consultation session with young people looked at the proposals outlined in ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’ about building strong and loving relationships
Stable Homes, Built on Love: Social Worker training
The consultation session with young people looked at the Children’s Social Care Early Career. The policy team were interested in looking at some of the outcomes within the Early Career Framework, how these would feel to children and young people and how other people would know that something had happened.
Stable Homes, Built on Love: experiences of residential care
These consultation sessions with young people looked at their experiences of residential care, starting with exploring the proposals outlined in ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’ and what children and young people would like from staff and leaders within residential care.