Relational practice with care experienced young people – free lunchtime webinars

NIROMP are excited to promote this free lunchtime webinar series focused on Relational Practice with care experienced young people. This series is designed to share valuable insights and practical strategies to enhance relational working. The webinars take place at 1pm – 1.45pm on 23^rd October, 6^th November, 21^st November & 3^rd December 2024 and 22^ndJanuary, 11 February and 19 March 2025.

Background 

There is plenty of evidence that relationships are the key to supporting young people in and leaving care to thrive and flourish, but it still seems hard for us to put relational working into practice. During 2023-24 the National Leaving Care Benchmarking Forum (NLCBF) and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation’s Leaving Care Learning Programme ran a peer learning programme to support local authority leaving care teams and voluntary organisations to develop relational working in practice.

The programme generated a wealth of learning materials, resources and links, which are being made available online. The peer learning programme team are hosting a series of webinars to introduce the materials, and the first ones take place this autumn. These sessions are open to everyone so please forward on the details to anyone you think might have an interest. Book using the registration links below. 

Relational Practice WEBINAR SERIES BOOK YOUR PLACE

·        Session 1: Young People’s Views on Relationships. Wednesday 23^rdOctober. We’ll share details about the relational working peer learning programme and what care experienced young people tell us about relationships. Register your place HERE

·        Session 2: Relational Practice with Care Experienced Young People: What research tells us. Wednesday 6^th November.  We’ll talk about the latest research and how we can implement research findings in practice. Register your place HERE

·        Session 3: Supporting Interdependence. Thursday 21 November. We’ll show how to support interdependence using the Relational Universe to visualise key relationships in the lives of young people. Register you place HERE

·        Session 4: Being authentic. Tuesday 3^rd December.  We’ll explore how you can be authentic in your practice using the 3 Ps to differentiate between what’s professional, personal and private. Register your place HERE

·        Session 5: Love in professional practice. Wed 22^nd January. We’ll consider the ways in which love features in work with care experienced young people and how you can help young people feel loved. Register your place HERE

·        Session 6: Understanding impact. Tuesday 11 February. We’ll share ideas for reflecting together on the impact of relational practice and how to understand this through creative methods like Most Significant Change. Register your place HERE

·        Session 7: Our toolkit treasure trove. Wednesday 19 March. In our final free webinar, we’ll point you at further resources and toolkits that can help strengthen relational practice in the current policy context.  Register your place HERE

Recent publications

• Report: Disability, disparity and demand: Analysis of the numbers and experiences of children in care and care leavers with a disability or long- term health condition (and here’s the infographic summary)
• Article: Children & Youth Service Review: The development and psychometric validation of a survey to measure the subjective well-being of care leavers
• Book chapter: Adapting services and support for young people negotiating the transition from care to adulthood in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic
• Evaluation of the Care Leavers Social Impact Bond (SIB) programme
• Webinar given in Australia: What makes life good? Measuring what matters to care leavers’ well-being
• Report: The story of New Belongings (co-author)
• Report: Well-being of children in care and care leavers: learning form the Bright Spots programme (Research in practice briefing)
• Final report and practice tools – Care leavers, Covid-19 and the transition from care (CCTC) 
• Evaluation of Pure Insight (care leaver charity) – Full report and summary report 
• Blog: how to make life good for children in care and care leavers
• Report: What makes life good? Care leavers views on their well-being(Nov 2020)
• Evaluation: Face to Face Pathways (Havering) (DfE innovation fund)
• Evidence framework Scottish independent care review (literature review ‘best care system’ and co-author 12 evidence papers on the care system inc. love, rights, stigma etc)
• Insight papers: Understanding why you are in care and Challenging stigma in care
• Toolkit: Care leaver local offer – thematic report  and Guide and Key messages (NLCBF members can access full range of resources including local offer audit tool)
• Blog: What the official statistics don’t tell us about the experiences of care leavers
• Research review: Care leavers’ views on their transition to adulthood – rapid review of the evidence
• Evaluation: New Belongings care leaver programme evaluation
• Evaluation: Mockingbird Family programme evaluation