This is happening today!

⏰ 1 - 2pm, Online (ZOOM)

There's still time to sign up:
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Reminder: What Matter & Who Matters to Young People Leaving Care this Thursday from 1-2pm #OpenAccess book launch

🚀 essex.ac.uk/events/2024/04… #careleavers

Please share Mary Carter Terry Galloway BASW Caroline Mc Health & Social Care Health, Wellbeing and Care Hub

Coram Voice and The Department for Education want to hear children and young people's views on care and sibling relationships. ❤️👥

📅 Date: 20/03/2024
⏲️Time: 6:00-7:30pm
🗺️Location: Teams
🔗 Sign-up: ow.ly/zn6R50QVFI7

#Siblings #CareExperience #CareLeaver #FosterCare

Greetings! Final The Churchill Fellowship weekend; Friday eve JASW #Jamaica 's equivalent to BASW hosted a Zoom roundtable, where I discussed the potential and pitfalls of #kinshipcare with #socialwork practitioners from across the parishes. Saturday: live radio interview - daunting!

Congratulations to Vaughan Gething on being set to be our new First Minister. We know that a new FM will come with renewed priorities. For too many children and young people, life has been increasingly challenging and we want to change that. (1/3)

This week is #KinshipCareWeek , but what is kinship care?

Did you know our Helpline is there to help Care Experienced people and their supporters, including kinship carers, call us on 0330 107 7540, 12-4pm, Mon-Fri.

In February a new study funded by Department for Education was launched which aims to explore the lives, needs and experiences of young people and their adoptive and special guardianship families.

Family Group Conference Provision in UK Local Authorities and Associations with Children Looked after Rates—an article from us - our Family VOICE team CASCADE Jonathan Scourfield Sophie Wood
Dr Rhiannon Evans #FGC
#SocialWork #LookedAfterChildren
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Taken in 1996 photo of Dolly who was incarcerated in the Moor Psychiatric Hospital for having an illegitimate child in her early teens, she never left and died about a year after I took her photo.

Our reusable period products people - this one’s for you!

Care Experienced writers interested in TV?

CH4 commit to offering an interview (and constructive feedback) to applicants who identify as care experienced and meet the essential criteria for the role as outlined on the job description.

Let me know if I can help..

These comments are clearly Islamophobic, racist and extreme.

Not only are they a lie but they are stoking the flames of the far-right and could put the Mayor of London in serious danger.

The Conservatives can’t stand by Lee Anderson tonight.

The UK government aims to stop publishing stats on homeless people's deaths – here's why that's a problem
The absence of data concerning homeless populations is not a new phenomenon. It underlines the wider invisibility of the unhoused.
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Research by Rebecca Jones for @WelshGvoernment highlights the importance of children having the opportunity to be heard

The report includes four key recommendations:

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A great opportunity to evaluate a feasibility pilot aiming to enhance participation of young people in public law cases

New report: The first annual report of the Welsh Basic Income Pilot Evaluation is now published.

This presents early findings. The summary and full reports can be found here:
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Senedd Research Health and Care Research Wales Sally Holland

“The Bafta fellowship went to Samantha Morton, who dedicated her award to “every child in care today, or who has been in care, or who is suffering, or who didn’t survive”.”
The ⁦wonderful@samthesparrow⁩ doesn’t forget-honouring #ChildrenInCare theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/…

Greetings! Johanna_FIH and me are looking forward to attending and contributing to the The Black Care Experience™️ conference discussions this Saturday. Thanks Judith AM Denton and your team for creating opportunities for cultural curiosity conversations leading to change 👏🏽

MacQueen PhD Scholarship in Social Work School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh with two great supervisor led options under supervision of Dr Franziska Meinck or Dr Jackie Gulland .
Application deadline 21st March 2024.

Further details: sps.ed.ac.uk/study/prospect…

Our Practice Lead, Sean Haresnape, is speaking on progress with family group conferences in the UK.

He highlights the role of Family Rights Group in championing FGCs and recent positive research interest including studies by Foundations and CASCADE