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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.
Stockport Local Pantry – helping care leavers to feel settled and supported
Stockport Local Pantry links care leavers to community hubs in order to help them feel settled in their neighbourhoods and financially and practically supported.
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.
As a care leaver, I've felt neglected and unsupported during the Covid Crisis
Article in The Guardian by Care Experienced Consultant Kerrie Portman, detailing her experience of support as a care leaver during the pandemic.
The stigma of being in care
2020 blog post by Shelly Reed, Participation Coordinator at Coram Voice, about her frustrations at the ‘tick box’ nature of the care system.
This week we’re clapping for leaving care personal advisers – Covid-19 pandemic
2020 Community Care article by Linda Briheim-Crookall about the important role personal advisers played during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Three ways social workers can support children in care
2020 Community Care article by Linda Briheim-Crookall on the simple messages from children in care and care leavers about how professionals can avoid stigmatising them.
Why do I live with my carer?
2020 ExChange Wales article by Professor Julie Selwyn discussing Bright Spots findings around adults explaining to children why they are in care.
“I wasn’t told why I was taken into care”
2020 Guardian article by Kerrie Portman discusses her experience of being taken into care