How Oldham set up a support group for young parents whose children have been adopted – New Belongings Programme

Oldham set up an 8-week programme to support young women whose children had been adopted or placed away from them.

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How Oldham set up a support group for young parents whose children have been adopted – New Belongings Programme

Oldham set up an 8-week programme to support young women whose children had been adopted or placed away from them.

Published 24 February 2025

The views of children and young people in kinship foster care on their well-being

10,000 Voices insight paper with analysis of the experience of children in care living with a family or friends who responded to the Bright Spots surveys.

Published 21 February 2025 By Julie Selwyn & Linda Briheim-Crookall

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.

Published 19 June 2024 By A National Voice

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.

Published 19 June 2024

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

Published 19 June 2024 By A National Voice

Stable Homes, Built on Love: Social Worker training

This 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.

Published 19 June 2024 By A National Voice

Stable Homes, Built on Love: experiences of residential care

What do young people with experience of residential care think about proposals outlined in ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’ and what would they like from staff and leaders within residential care?

Published 19 June 2024 By A National Voice

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.

Published 18 June 2024 By A National Voice

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.

Published 18 September 2023 By Professor Julie Selwyn and Shirley Lewis

How Hull helped young people see their family more often

Hull supported their children to see their family more by creating a working group of key staff and offering more training on the subject.

Published 1 April 2023