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Helping care leavers in North Yorkshire stay in touch with their Personal Advisors
North Yorkshire extended support for care leavers beyond their 25th birthday, offering to be 'Always Here'.
Maintaining support for young people in Stockport – New Belongings Programme
Stockport developed a mentoring scheme enabling key workers to become mentors to young people, ensuring long term support
Why social workers need to show children they care
2021 Community Care article by Lauren Parker about her experience with social workers.
Helping young people get to know their social workers in Middlesborough
Middlesbrough helped workers and children tget to know each other better by creating ‘about me’ sheets
Helping children to know and trust their social workers in St Helens
St Helens developed various tools and service-wide strategies to ensure children know and trust their social workers better.
Making local authority language more child-focused in North Somerset
North Somerset used their Bright Spots findings to rethink their pledge to children in care and to change the de-personalising language used by professionals.
Coventry: Celebrating the success of care leavers – New Belongings Programme
Coventry developed a culture of celebrating success so that young people know that they have people who believe in them.
Maintaining stability of care in North Somerset
North Somerset responded to Bright Spots research which found that children in care often had a high turnover of social workers
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.
Care leavers’ well-being during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Key Messages for Leaving Care Workers
As we respond to new circumstances it is important that we plan our services not only to keep our children and young people safe and supported, but to make their lives as positive as possible at this time.