Theme
Category
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.
Stable Homes, Built on Love: rethinking Independent Visitors, befriending and mentoring
This in-person workshop with young people was part of the Amplify 2023 event. The workshop focused on independent visitors, befriending and mentoring services.
Keeping in Touch: looked after children and young people’s views on their contact arrangements
Professor Julie Selwyn and Shirley Lewis share important insights into children in care’s views on staying connected with family.
Helping children locate and connect with people who are important to them
Dechaun Malcolm, Children’s Rights Officer for Southwark Council, talks about Reconnect, a service that helps children and young people aged 5-25 in Southwark to locate and connect with people who are important to them.
Developing a family focused environment for children in North Yorkshire
Jonny Hoyle, Development Lead, North Yorkshire, shares some of the work that North Yorkshire County Council has achieved under its “family focused” agenda.
Staying Connected webinar
A webinar exploring the Bright Spots Staying Connected report on looked after children and young people’s feelings about contact and family time.