Coram Voice has published a report on its three-year New Belongings programme, in which eight local authorities worked with young people leaving care to develop solutions to issues such as safety, emotional wellbeing and ongoing support. New Belongings provides local areas with a structure for co-producing local solutions to local issues, and Coram Voice says … Continue reading The value of co-producing support with care leavers
Source Department of Health and Social Care February 2023 The Department of Health and Social Care has published a report on its progress in implementing 'The Best Start for Life' - the vision for children's first few years espoused by Andrea Leadsom's Early Years Healthy Development Review. Reported progress includes: announcing around £300 million to fund … Continue reading Trailblazers for the Family Hubs and Start for Life programme
Source NSPCC Publication date February 2023 In February 2023, the Department for Education (DfE) set out its plans to reform children’s social care in England. The NSPCC briefing summarises the proposals included in three documents published by the DfE: Stable homes, built on love: implementation strategy, which sets out the government’s long-term plan to transform … Continue reading Government plans to reform children’s social care in England: CASPAR briefing
Source MCR Pathways Published February 2023 NIROMP are proud to promote the MCR's award winning Young Talent mentoring programme. In 2023 the MCR Pathway are looking for help to provide more young people with a mentor who’s there just for them. Being a mentor isn’t easy, it takes time and persistence, but it’s worth it. … Continue reading MCR Pathways Brings Mentoring to England
Source ADCS Published 11th February 2023 What's it all about? It is this love and kindness that will sustain us all and make us system leaders of the change that is required. We will continue to be the voices in the system that demand a country that works for all children where they can know true love … Continue reading “Colleagues you are making a difference every day for children in your part of the country, one step at a time”
Source Co-Power 7th February 2023 Co-POWeR is a study of the combined impacts of COVID-19 and racial discrimination on groups who have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. This is an interdisciplinary collaboration across several universities, divided into research. https://twitter.com/the_copower/status/1622954686499155968?s=61&t=xbqoDUqLHqVGeeCYqQa-2A Download more information at source: HERE The publication of this important research is expected soon. … Continue reading Consortium on Practices of Wellbeing & Resilience in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Families and Communities (Co-POWeR)
Source CoramBAAF Posted February 2023 Identifying permanence placements for children and young people from Black and Global majority backgrounds and communities can be a challenge, particularly as regards cultural matching and when considering children’s cultural, religious and identity needs, beyond just skin and hair care needs. This session will explore the importance of looking at … Continue reading Enhancing Anti-Racist Practice in services supporting permanence for children and young people
Source Ofsted By Yvette Stanley, Posted on: 1 February 2023 “Our oversight is likely to shed light on the uncomfortable reality - that too many children are currently living without the right kind of everyday safeguards that they should expect from a system that is there to protect and care for them. “While it may be true … Continue reading Ofsted’s 2023 priorities for social care
By Sharon Martin, NIROMP Chair on 2nd February 2023 The long-awaited Department for Education implementation strategy includes welcome focus on ‘Putting love, relationships and a stable home at the heart of being a child in care’ and rejection of the proposal to remove the Independent reviewing officer role. On advocacy, the DfE has said it … Continue reading NEWS: Government responds to Children’s Social Care Review
Source Cascade 13th December 2022 The Welsh Government’s Basic Income Pilot gives young people leaving care the equivalent of the living wage, £1600 per month before tax, from their 18thbirthday for a two year period. The payments will be made to around 550 young people who have their 18th birthdays between July 1st 2022 and 30th June 2023. Limiting the … Continue reading Welsh Government Basic Income Pilot for young people leaving care
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