📢🎓Coming 1st July: Resource for care-experienced graduates🎓📢 An advice booklet for care-experienced graduates will be released on Monday 1st July as part of the Care-Experienced Graduates Project. Keep an eye out for the release tweet on Monday 👀 (1/2)

Looking forward to presenting on Free Loaves on Fridays at #JUSWAC tomorrow! It goes without saying that it is impossible to do justice 100 care-experienced authors in 20 mins...so grab yours here (& lets get it on reading lists for ALL social work students this Sept):

Join Jim Goddard for our social support zoom this Wed 3rd July 7-9pm. 1st half will be shairing pics from our time in care. 2nd half discussing any issue. Send pics to Jim in advance. All care leavers welcome. Sign up careleavers.com/webinar-contac…

We have got some very exciting news for you; the Care Leaver's Connected team and some amazing volunteers have been working extremely hard to bring you a magazine made by care leavers for care leavers (of any age!) The magazine will be released next Friday 19th 👀

Colleges & universities with our Quality Mark, cited as good practice in the Care Review, offer students with care experience holistic & practical support so they can thrive ♥️ Curious? Our Expression of Interest is here 👇 nnecl.org/pages/198-expr… #careexperince #University

👑 We're sorry not to see #CareExperienced young people mentioned in today's #KingsSpeech, but we’ve been encouraged to hear ministers say they'll be a priority & look forward to working with them to reform the care system. What we think needs to change: becomecharity.org.uk/our-manifesto/

Great afternoon celebrating success of always hope with some of my favourite people from Innovation_Unit HMPPS what a difference this project and Lifelong Links as part of it making to care leavers leaving custody Frances Flaxington Natasha Stirling nlcbf

PLZ SHARE: Confirmed dates for National Care leavers Week 2024 - 28th Oct-3rd Nov. A group of our charities are working with care experienced young people to coproduce a theme which will be announced soon.. @Become1992 Care Leaver Covenant Coram Voice nlcbf Department for Education

An important NSPCC report calls for a new strategy on tackling child neglect The distinction between neglect & poverty is crucial, as Cathy Newman Josh MacAlister MP discuss here The answer isn't to push struggling families into the child protection system channel4.com/news/has-child…

Blog & Videos Published today - Read Dyllan, a [email protected] Champion's Blog on our In Their Own Words event & watch the videos of care experienced young people sharing the views of 200+ with key local & national asks about what would make a difference... leavingcare.org/blog-in-their-…

Please share. The HACKNEY Xmas Dinner team have been meeting for the past month to put on an Xmas dinner for care leavers on Christmas Day. Here is the How To Guide. shorturl.at/4DhIe We meet in Hackney. Can you join us? Hackney Xmas Dinner #Hackney

Care Leavers' Assoc It was a lovely meeting this evening. Ten of us discussed our views of child care files. Some of us had accessed our files, others hadn't. What we all shared was an understanding of the experience of growing up in care that the files can often only touch the surface of.

Have you heard of the ‘care cycle’? Our new project aims to offer an alternative narrative & champion parents who have their own children after leaving care. Please get in touch if you would like to share your views #CareLeaversCan ⁦⁦The Care Experienced Conference⁩ sheffield.ac.uk/ahpnm/research…

Did you experience a culture shock when you first went to university? A significant number of care experienced applicants shared that they were anticipating a culture shock when starting university. We’d love to hear your views and perspectives about the statistic below.

This reminder for Jim's Monthly Zoom sessions that run on the first Wednesday each month. Please sign up here careleavers.com/webinar-contac…

The government has announced that care leavers aged under 25 will be given priority access to social housing and exemption from requirements meaning they must have links to a specific area to live there. cypnow.co.uk/content/news/l…

We are excited to announce our special National Care Leavers Week issue will be released on Monday 28th October. This issue shares care leaver voices across all ages and experiences, to show that leaving care does not stop at 25 and together we are one #NCLW

Budget expected to include £44 million for fostering and #KinshipCare, including piloting kinship care allowances. Follow Kinship for updates as info becomes available on this #ValueOurLove campaign priority news.sky.com/story/chancell…