This guidance is of use to all personal advisers and care leavers seeking learning resources to gain new skills and open up new opportunities for work… Read More
Promoting the health and wellbeing of looked-after children
This document replaces statutory guidance on ‘Promoting the health and wellbeing of looked-after children’ issued in 2009… Read More
Keep on caring: supporting young people from care to independence
This strategy looks at how to improve services, support and advice for care leavers. It makes recommendations for local and national government, and wider sectors of society… Read More
Staying Put Scotland
Guidance for Local Authorities and other Corporate Parents: Supporting looked after children and young people to remain in care, as part of a staged transition towards adulthood and greater independence… Read More
Children and Communities Grant programmes
The Welsh government Children and Communities Grant programmes seek to address the support needs of the most vulnerable children and adults in our communities through a range of early intervention, prevention, and support mechanisms… Read More
Children looked after in Wales
On 31st March 2019, there were 6,845 children looked after in Wales, a further increase of 440 compared to the previous year. As a result, the gap between the rate of children looked after in Wales compared to other parts of the UK has continued to widen… Read More
Value of LEGO as a visual method: Understanding experiences of wellbeing in schools
Wellbeing is a complex experience to measure, define, observe and communicate. My research used LEGO as a research method to explore Wellbeing Wednesday afternoons, an initiative to fulfil the Health and Wellbeing aim for… Read More
Talk with me: Speech, Language and Communication (SLC)
The Welsh Government’s Talk with Me Speech, Language and Communication (SLC) delivery plan was published in November 2020. These pages will continue to be updated with new developments and materials… Read More
#BuildBackBetter: You know it makes sense, but how do you do it?
Throughout the pandemic, lockdown and now an extended lockdown in our home city. Leicestershire cares staff have been working with a range of community, council, and business colleagues to… Read More
Identifying and responding to child neglect in schools: Messages for best practice
With the majority of children returning to schools, referrals to Children’s Services are expected to substantially rise. As recently reported in the Guardian, schools will play ‘a pivotal role in spotting neglect … Read More
