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Leicestershire Cares YES Project
Leicestershire Cares had an exciting quarter with young people engaging more and more with their employability sessions, creating CVs, learning how to successfully job search, preparing for interviews and growing in confidence…
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New education update from Leicestershire Cares
Leicestershire Cares Education Team update on the workshops and sessions they have been delivering, and the projects they have recently launched and relaunched…
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Marks of an Unwanted Rainbow: New book documenting experiences in the care system
A collection of poetry about care-experience is featured in the new book Marks of an Unwanted Rainbow…
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Selfies, snapchat and keeping safe
Selfies, Snapchat and Keeping Safe is a Health Care Research Wales (HCRW) funded project, the first of its kind in Wales…
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Supporting the wellbeing of disabled children and young people
The ‘VOCAL’ study was based on children’s “right to rest, leisure, play and recreation and to take part in cultural and artistic activities”…
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Leicestershire Cares’ ideas for the Care Review
Leicestershire Cares has engaged with the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care in England since its launch. We responded to their initial Call for Evidence, submitted feedback to the Case for Change, and have met with…
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‘Your plan, your voice’: New Thrive Magazine
More recently, the Young People’s Care Forum in Wales took part in workshops that explored the importance of having a pathway plan to help prepare for leaving care and detail the support that young people are entitled…
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Services for parents who have had a child removed from their care: A new study in Wales
Reflect is a service which operates over 11 sites in Wales, covering 20 local authorities. These 11 sites are either run by the local authority, or commissioned to one of two children’s charities, Barnardo’s and Action for Children…
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Self-respect through street art
A fine mist of self-expression, grassroots politics, protest and youth culture was sprayed out of the nozzle of paint cans when Leicestershire Cares teamed up with arts organisation Pedestrian to create a new mural for our warehouse space…
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Promise to Care toolkit
This toolkit is designed in collaboration with care-experienced young people and the local business community and is for businesses, local authorities and support organisations. It gives insights and ideas into the issues facing care-experienced young people looking for work…
Welcome to ExChange Wales
Building better social care in Wales
