We know that rates of eating disorders are high. According to a large survey conducted in 2017, about four in every 1,000 young people have an eating disorder… Read More
EPIC/Tusla Fora for Children in Care – 2015 – 2018
EPIC Empowering People in Care is a national voluntary organisation that works with and for children and young people who are currently living in care or those who have care experience. Read More
Thrive magazine: ‘Your online life’ and ‘Keeping yourself safe online’
View Thrive magazine’s latest issues: ‘Your online life’ and ‘Keeping yourself safe online’… Read More
NSPCC fights for a fair start in Wales
The NSPCC have launched a new campaign ‘Fight for a Fair Start’, aimed at ensuring there is perinatal mental health support available for every parent who needs it, wherever they live… Read More
How fuzzy logic can empower young people
provision for young people, especially those who are disadvantaged, is very much linked to a pre-determined linear agenda. This agenda may well go something like… Read More
VFCC Summer Newsletter
Here is the latest edition of the Voices From Care Cymru newsletter, filled with updates on all the things we’ve been up to over the last few months. Read More
Are care leavers really more likely to go to prison than university?
For those of you who don’t like a long read, the short answer is that nobody actually knows for sure, but that it looks somewhere between unlikely and very unlikely… Read More
Birthday cakes, rockets and washing machines: How Fuzzy logic can empower young people
Imagine you gathered a group of people together and gave them the ingredients and instructions to bake a cake. If they followed the instructions eventually, they should all be able to bake a cake… Read More
“We talk issues and have ‘bants'” : What do children and young people think about their social worker?
Our recent paper (Stabler, Wilkins and Carro, 2019) uses a novel method (Q-method) to explore what children and young people ‘in need’, ‘in care’ and ‘leaving care’ think about their social workers and personal advisors – and what the worker does when they spend time together…. Read More
How can it be that ‘being a student with care experience is very daunting’ and ‘…..supportive, inclusive, diverse and fun… a joy actually’?
Why is there such a dichotomy in these two direct accounts from students with care experience? Read More
