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Fostering Relationships: Paid Research Post for a Care Experienced Young Person
Who decides what research gets done? Who decides how research is carried out? Who decides what the findings of research means? Normally, the answer to all three of these questions is researchers – academics who often are doing research as an ‘outsider’ to the group they want to research…
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Children in Care say complaining “would makes things worse”
In a 2017 survey by Ofsted, nearly 1 in 10 children in care reported that foster carers or staff at children’s homes rarely or never helped them when they were upset…
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Young people accessing the outdoors with TAF
Team Around the Family (TAF) is a support service for you and your family. It has been shown that it is best when families identify…
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Social media isn’t causing more eating disorders in young people
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…
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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.
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Thrive magazine: ‘Your online life’ and ‘Keeping yourself safe online’
View Thrive magazine’s latest issues: ‘Your online life’ and ‘Keeping yourself safe online’…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…