Care and Education (Page 2)
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Parent Talk Cymru
This service provides support for parents in Wales and offers parenting articles and an opportunity to speak to the service via live chat in English or Welsh…
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Care experience & culture: a digital archive
This new digital archive will be a one-stop accessible site with information about care-experienced characters in fiction and on-screen, as well as care-experienced writers, artists and actors…
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Taking Hold of Our Heritage: the digital book
This book project gave the narrative power back to care experienced young people so they can tell the stories they want heard about their lives. Care experienced young people are often required to talk about their traumatic past to professionals, support services…
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Care review in England: wonder and rigour turn despair into hope
The long awaited review into children’s social care has finally been launched and as might have been expected is already subject to “debate” as various stakeholders seek to ensure their views are listened to and heard…
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School meetings: be prepared!
Many foster carers attend meetings with schools as part of their role. The below list is a reflection of all the things that I have found useful over the years, from the meetings I’ve attended…
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Self harm and foster carers’ role
December’s ExChange workshop was a collaboration between Colin Turner from The Fostering Network, Dr Rhiannon Evans and Stephen Jennings from DECIPHer…
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Understanding higher education experiences of care-experienced young people
It is widely known that care experienced young people in Wales and the UK more widely experience poorer outcomes in a wide range of factors than their peers who do not have experience of social care…
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‘A Portrait of Care’: Combating the negative stereotypes people have about children in care
A Portrait of Care’ is a collaboration with the University of Southampton, Widening Participation Department. The project will form an online exhibition via Instagram using self-portraiture as a way to combat the negative stereotypes people have about children in care…
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Online services, mental health & wellbeing of the care-experienced
Research is required to understand how interventions can transition to online or blended (a mixture of face-to-face and online) delivery, what models are perceived to work most effectively…
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Education during COVID-19: Experiences of the fostering sector
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic we have heard how fostering households across the UK quickly adapted to support children in these unprecedented times. Many foster carers assumed additional responsibilities…
