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Local Authority
A Social Prescribing approach to supporting care-experienced young people
East Sussex worked with a NHS Trust to help their care-experienced young people with additional needs to access relevant support.
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: Wandsworth Black In Care Council – Workshops
A safe space for black care-experienced young men to come together, offer each other support with shared issues and to discuss aspirations for the future.
Amplify Awards 2024: Sunderland Change Council – Care-experienced cook book
Sunderland's Change Council created a 'care-experienced cook book' to help young people improve their cooking skills and learn kitchen techniques
How Hampshire co-produced a video about care experienced children’s experience of school
Hampshire young people produced a video to highlight the impact that being in care has on their education and their experiences in school.
Opportunity Broker role to help young people fulfil their aspirations and dreams
Opportunity Brokers work with Personal Advisors in North Yorkshire to create bespoke opportunities that help motivate and inspire care leavers to fulfill their aspirations and dreams.
Measuring Outcomes for Care Leavers
Brights Spots findings were used to make recommendations on how to improve the measures currently in use by local authorities for their care leavers.
How Hull tackled bullying of children in care
Hull partnered with their children in care council to tackle the issue of bullying. They created a podcast for all staff and introduced new ways of working to improve this area of practice.
How Hertfordshire created a support group for care experienced parents – New Belongings Programme
Hertfordshire created ‘Ohana’ to provide care-experienced young parents with a free and friendly support group.