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Messages to the Minister: briefing papers and recommendations (2025-26)
Discover the three priority areas for the Children's Minister to focus on as highlighted by care-experienced children and young people across England in October 2024.
Disabled Youth Transitioning from Care: An International Policy Analysis
This academic paper highlights that disabled care-leavers face inconsistent support, limited recognition, and fragmented services during transition to adulthood across countries.
Reverse scrutiny: Empowering young voices
Hull wanted to move beyond traditional consultation and give care-experienced young people real influence over the services they use by setting up a reverse scrutiny panel.
Using young people’s voices to shape leaving care services
Stockport wanted to place young people’s voices at the centre of service design and ensure that their experiences directly influence improvements to leaving care support.
Removing practical barriers to using the Setting Up Home Allowance
Barnsley supported young people to access their Setting Up Home Allowance by introducing practical solutions like cash access, affordable furnishings and support with flooring costs.
Well-being walks to build connections between young people and professionals
Hull's care leavers organised a walk with local authority staff to help young people feel part of a community and reduce a feeling of loneliness and isolation.
Ask Me What Matters – ensuring services are shaped by care-experienced voices
Ask Me What Matters ensures children and young people’s voices are gathered regularly, recognised, and used to shape the support they receive, ensuring services truly respond to what matters most to children in care and care leavers.
Stay and Grow: a training flat to prepare young people for independence
A 12-month training programme helping young people practice real-life skills like paying bills, budgeting, cooking, cleaning and managing a tenancy.
You’re Hired Toolkit helping employers to better understand care experience
Young people in Sheffield helped develop a toolkit encouraging businesses to adopt a more accepting and thoughtful approach to hiring care-experienced young people.
Hosting a conference for Corporate Parents to show what is important to children in care
Young people from the North East Children in Care Council hosted an event, encouraging professionals to 'Be the kind of parent you would want for your own child.'