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… Read More
The experiences and outcomes of children and young people from Wales receiving Secure Accommodation Orders
Social Care Wales commissioned a project to explore the experiences of children and young people from Wales who received Secure Accommodation Orders between 1 April 2016 and 31 March 2018. 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
Mapping what works: Safely reducing entry of children and young people into statutory care
The increasing number of children and young people entering statutory care in the UK is a significant social, health and educational priority… 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
