 Location: Barnardo's Parenting Capacity Assessment Service (PCAS), Lennoxtown Contract type: Permanent Hours: 37.00 Salary: Starting Salary Circa - £27,814 - £33,358 Closing Date: 21 June 2021 Interview Date: tbc Barnardo's, East Dunbartonshire/Greater Glasgow
The Parenting Capacity Assessment Service will work across the whole of the East Dunbartonshire local authority area. The Service has developed an assessment framework that is applied over a 16 week period with the purpose of assisting the social work department in long term decision making for children, where there is a significant concern regarding the parents capacity to meet the child's/children's needs. We are looking to recruit a Project Worker with the following criteria to join our service:
Please see the attached role profile and additional information sheet . For an informal chat about this post, please contact Daljeet Dagon on 0141 243 2393. Please note application packs are NOT available on this number. They must be completed on the website. At Barnardo's we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Our safer recruitment processes mean that the safety and welfare of the child is paramount at every stage of the process and therefore, we adopt rigorous scrutiny in our pre-employment checking. This post is subject to a range of pre-employment checks including a Criminal Records Enhanced Disclosure for the successful candidate. About Barnardo's At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role. Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and male candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's. Our basis and values Full details and application documents here  Location: Barnardo's Fostering & Adoption Wales Contract type: Permanent Hours: 37 Salary: £28,631 - £37,414 Closing Date: 20 June 2021 Interview Date: 2nd July 2021 Barnardo's Cymru Fostering Service has an exciting vacancy for a qualified and registered Social Worker to join its Fostering Service. You will be joining a team who embraces working in a creative, open and transparent manner with foster parents to provide children with placements in which they can thrive.
As a Social Worker you have the chance to make a real difference in the lives of Children, Young People and Families by:
Along with a Social Work qualification, you will have a passion and drive to make a positive difference to children and foster parents. The applicant will need to be able to participate in a "helpline" rota Out of Office hours. There is additional remuneration for providing this service. The duties of this post require the applicant to have a full current driving license that enables them to drive in the UK and have use of a car and business use insurance. Barnardo's is, however, willing to consider any proposals put forward by applicants that would allow them to do the job by other means. When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described. Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work life balance we therefore offer flexible working arrangements as the role involves some evening/weekend working and travel with occasional overnight stays. This is a home-based position with regular travel and all geographical areas within Wales (and bordering Wales) will be considered. About Barnardo's At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role. Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and male candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's. Our basis and values Full details and application documents here  TACT – the UK’s leading fostering charity, has joined cross-sector organisations, business leaders, unions and young people in urging the Government to reconsider its pandemic recovery measures for children and young people, asking them to urgently boost investment.
In two separate letters to the Prime Minister, coordinated by Fair Education Alliance and the National Children’s Bureau, and signed by over 240 leaders from across business, education and the charity sectors, campaigners have again urged the Government to invest in their stated intention of levelling up and show real ambition for the recovery for children and young people. While researchers estimate that £13.5bn is needed to help children recover from a year of disruption, isolation and anxiety, the Chancellor has committed to spend only one tenth of this amount. TACT CEO said:” “TACT is concerned to see that the Government’s much vaunted commitment to levelling up seems to have abruptly levelled off”. The campaign insists the pandemic has deepened the existing crisis in funding for the education of disadvantaged children. Alongside extra money for schools to spend on staff development and interventions for pupils, a wider investment in measures to address the impact of Covid-19 on children and young people, such as reversing rising child poverty, reducing waiting times for mental health help for children and young people, and investing in the services that protect children from abuse and neglect, is urgently needed. TACT is pleased to be among the experts calling for the Government to set out a new and ambitious vision of childhood and education to support children, young people and their families to recover from the impact of COVID-19, with #ChildrenAtTheHeart. Source: www.tactcare.org.uk  Circa: £34,000 + inner London weighting (£3333) + £700 p.a on call allowance Location: London, City of London Department/Division: EDD03 Contract Type: Permanent Full Time Closing Date: 23 June 2021 Giving children and young people the foundations they need to thrive.
The role Action for Children Fostering South East, is one service, based on two sites. Our London office is in central London (WC2B 5DG). We also have a Kent service based in Ramsgate. We have foster carers in various and widespread areas of London and Kent. We are not a large service, but we are long established, and have committed, skilled and experienced foster carers who are able to provide stable, nurturing family homes for children and young people who for various reasons aren't able to be cared for in their birth families. Our children, young people and carers are supported and by a very experienced and skilled staff team. One of the strengths that our foster carers often comment on is that our service has a ‘family' feel to it. We are looking for an outstanding Fostering Social Worker who can support placements in the London and surrounding area, so flexibility to travel across this cluster as and when needed is imperative for this role. You will also have the opportunity to assess applicants to foster. During Covid times, we support agile / homeworking with the expectation to progress back into our office base in WC2B 5DG, when we can, with continued flexibility and a mix of home, office and travel to meet children and carers where they are. You will make a difference by:
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The way we work We work to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team. Have a look at our behaviours and values to understand more about the way we work here. Rewards We want our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, a comprehensive employer-matched pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts on our dedicated benefits portal. Find out more about our exclusive Action for Children benefits here. For safe and happy childhoods At Action for Children, we protect and support children and young people, providing practical and emotional care and support, ensuring their voices are heard, and campaigning to bring lasting improvements to their lives. Last year, we helped more than 387,000 children and families across the UK. For any further questions about this role, please contact Lynsey.Munro@actionforchildren.org.uk in our recruitment team. It's vital for our services to be able to recruit and support adopters / Foster carers from a diverse range of backgrounds to reflect the children who need families. We therefore actively seek to replicate that diversity in our staff, and we positively welcome the wide breadth of experience, knowledge and understanding that this will bring to our services. Action for Children is passionate about promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons particularly people with Disabilities and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce. We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice. Full details and application documents here  Local authority and children’s services leaders have called for greater scrutiny of private sector children’s social care providers in a bid to minimise the risks posed by a large operator collapsing.
The Local Government Association (LGA) said it would like to see the creation of a role to monitor the financial health of large children’s social care placement providers, while the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) wants to see changes to the regulatory system to require providers to be registered instead of settings. The concerns were raised in responses to the Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) call for evidence on the children’s social care market study. Launched in March on the request of Care Review chair Josh MacAlister, the CMA market study – responses to which have just been published - could lead to a full investigation later this year. In their submissions, both organisations said they were concerned about the growing influence of private equity (PE) investors in the children’s social care sector. The LGA cites research that shows private equity-owned provision “carries a higher financial risk profile than other types of providers”. It states: “Four of the seven largest groups of independent providers carry more debts and liabilities than tangible assets, with all of these being PE-owned. In total, six of the 20 groups of providers (the largest in the market) in the study reported negative net assets, with all but one of these having PE ownership.” The LGA highlights that the collapse of adult care home provider Southern Cross in 2011 led to a legal duty for the Care Quality Commission to monitor the financial health of the “most difficult to replace” adult social care service providers – but that no such duty exists for the children’s sector. “We would like to see a role introduced to oversee the financial health of large children’s social care placement providers to prevent a ‘Southern Cross situation’ in children’s social care, and also incorporate consideration of how mergers and acquisitions impact on quality of care and the experiences and outcomes of children,” it states. In its submission, the ADCS echoes growing concerns about the role of private equity in the residential care sector and its impact on the stability of providers. It states: “For some time, ADCS members have been concerned about how private equity is driving rapid changes in the ownership, financial models and service delivery in residential services for vulnerable children. “The proportion of the market controlled by just a small number of providers, along with multi-million-pound mergers between providers who are diversifying across the sector and buying up smaller firms, increases the risk within the system. The risks associated with the impact of provider failure are significant and only increase as ownership continues to contract.” The ADCS highlights that the current regulatory framework is nearly 20 years old and focused on the performance of individual homes rather than “the efficacy of the increasingly common large provider chains/organisations or the contribution they make to children’s outcomes”. There is little focus on – or scrutiny of – the financial stability of parent companies, no single record of who owns the services that deliver care for children available for authorities to refer to as corporate parents, nor a mechanism for recording or managing the risk of provider failure, it adds. Moving to a system that registered providers instead of settings “would allow the flexibility needed to make emergency/crisis placements while also allowing authorities to tailor the care and support around the individual needs of children and young people”, it added. The CMA received submissions from 35 organisations to its study. A decision on whether to hold an investigation will be made by September. Source: www.cypnow.co.uk  The government has announced an additional £51m to support care leavers and young people transitioning to independence.
The funding will extend existing Department for Education flagship schemes Staying Put and Staying Close for an additional year. The package includes:
The DfE is also set to provide more than 5,000 more laptops for care leavers through the Get Help with Technology scheme, which will help to prevent loneliness and isolation among this group of young people. The laptops and routers will mean they can more easily keep in touch with their personal advisers and wider support networks, as well as helping them access support services such as for education, mental health support and searching for employment opportunities online. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said: “Every young person in care deserves to live in accommodation that meets their needs and keeps them safe – anything less is unacceptable, and so continuing to prioritise children in care or leaving care is absolutely vital. “The measures build on our shared ambition across government to level up outcomes and opportunities for everyone, but especially the most vulnerable – by providing safer homes, reducing isolation among young people leaving care, and by making sure they have a strong support network to rely on as they take steps into adult life.” "This new funding will help care leavers as they navigate the sometimes perilous transition into living independently, whether that's through advice from a personal adviser or rapid support if they find themselves with no roof over their head,” he said. "Taken together with the recent exemption from the shared accommodation rate, this is a real step forward for care leavers." Meanwhile, a report by charity Barnardo’s reveals the extent of unsafe, unsuitable and unhealthy accommodation offered to vulnerable young people when they leave care and how this differs from that offered to children. Its survey of 2,000 adults found that only one in five received no support from parents when they first moved out of the family home to live independently. Interviews the charity did with 23 care leavers about their experiences found an overwhelming proportion reported having little or no choice about where they moved after leaving care, many found the whole process of finding somewhere to live and moving in to be "scary" and did not feel ready to live independently. Its No Place Like Home report calls on the government to provide more support for the Staying Close scheme, double to £4,000 the ‘setting up home’ grant, and develop robust standards for semi-independent accommodation. Barnardo’s chief executive Javed Khan said: “Many young people leaving the care system enter adulthood without a strong support network, leaving them particularly vulnerable. “Having a safe and stable home is one of the most important factors in helping care leavers to recover from past trauma, gain qualifications and secure stable employment. Yet our research has demonstrated that care leavers are too often expected to live in conditions that are unsuitable and at worst unsafe. “The government has a unique opportunity to improve the system for care leavers, through the Independent Review of Children's Social Care. We must also make it easier for young people to stay with their foster carers up to the age of 21; and when they do live independently, accommodation must be safe and appropriate to meet their needs.” Source: www.cypnow.co.uk  Location: Homebased (East Midlands) Salary: Up to £37,290 p.a + £1,500 Out of Hours Allowance p.a.+ £750 Home Working Allowance p.a. Closing Date: 16/06/2021 Interview Date: 28/06/2021 Hours: 35 Hours Per Week TACT, the UK’s largest fostering charity now has over 500 dedicated carers, who look after over 600 children and young people across the country. Our reputation and growth rests upon our strength in providing successful placements. As a charity, we do not have shareholders who receive profits, and we invest all of our surplus income into service, staff, carers, and children’s development.
Our vision is to provide better lives for our children and young people. Find out more about our values here We currently have a vacancy for a Senior Supervising Social Worker. The right candidate fror this role will be someone for whom quality of service is paramount and who shares our commitment to working in partnership with our children and foster carers. The majority of the caseload is in Northamptonshire so this would suit someone who lives within reasonable distance of Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes or West Bedfordshire. As a ‘not for profit’ organisation, we put the needs of our children and carers first and look to appoint individuals who are as passionate about this as we are. As a Homebased Senior Supervising Social Worker, you will support and supervise the foster families and placements we have in the areas mentioned above remotely and in person when it’s safe to do so. The successful candidate will also need to evidence flexibility and have the willingness to travel to all areas associated with the TACT East Midlands region. TACT is a homebased workforce. We recognise the benefits that flexible home working creates for both the employer and the employee. As a remote working organisation, we are committed to work with our staff to enable consistent inclusion and engagement across the organisation to ensure the optimum standards of service for our carers and children and their foster carers in the development of our services. The ideal candidate for this Senior Supervising Social Worker role should have post qualifying experience in family placement work or other childcare settings as well as a good working knowledge of relevant legislation and child protection procedures. Main requirements:
TACT offer an excellent employee benefits package including:
Please see the Job Information Pack and Job Description for further information. You will need to be DipSW, CSS or CQSW qualified and registered with Social Work England. An enhanced DBS clearance is also required and will be processed by TACT on your behalf. The successful applicant will be required to support Duty and Out of Hours on a rota basis and will be paid an out of hours’ allowance of £1,500 per annum once participating in the rota. Closing: Wednesday 16th June 2021 Interviews: Monday 28th June 2021 (via Microsoft Teams) Safeguarding is everyone’s business and TACT believe that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work. As part of TACT’s commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children. We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT’s young people. All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT’s safeguarding policies. TACT does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them. TACT reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment. Full details and application documents here  Location: Barnardo's North West Fostering Service Contract type: Permanent Hours: 37 Salary: £39,358 - £50,040 (FTE) Closing Date: 4 June 2021 Interview Date: 14 June 2021 We are looking for an experienced and highly skilled Operations Manager (Registered Manager) for our North West Fostering Service in the North West area.
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When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described. Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore are open to offering flexible working arrangements. About Barnardo's At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role. Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and male candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's. Our basis and values Full details and application documents here  Young people living with foster families in England often move out to live independently when they are 18. Under Staying Put, young people have the chance to stay with their foster families up to the age of 25 instead. This provides stability and support at a crucial stage in young people’s lives and gives them a wider range of opportunities, such as going to university. With many students currently finishing their degrees, we spoke to Kanyin, a 21-year-old young person who lives with a St Christopher’s foster family. Kanyin is about to graduate from Coventry University, so she shared her experiences of how Staying Put with her foster family supported her to complete her degree and deal with the pandemic.  How long have you lived with your foster family?
For ten years, since I was 11 years old. How would you describe your relationship with your foster carer? I see her as my second mum. I can talk to her about anything and I feel very comfortable with her. It’s always been easy to go to her as she’s so supportive. How would you summarise Staying Put? Staying Put is the chance for a young person to still focus on yourself, have time to enjoy being young and to do what you really want to do. It’s instead of getting pushed into the real world too early. I feel like I’ve been lucky in that sense – I can do things like go on holiday with my friends without worrying about bills and money. For foster carers, Staying Put is a chance for them to keep supporting a young person until they’re ready for adulthood. To me it’s basically an extension of what the whole fostering system is. Did you always know you were going to be Staying Put? Yeah, I did always know – me and my carer and my social worker had the conversation and agreed that Staying Put was the best option. I didn’t feel comfortable to leave yet. What difference did it make being able to stay in fostering after you turned 18? I felt less stressed out. I never had to think about extra bills apart from my uni ones, which I covered through student loans and my job. And it means I could go home during university holidays instead of being by myself and feeling lonely. As a care leaver if you want to move out from your foster family AND go to university, you could have to stay in the place you’re from – otherwise you can end up paying two sets of rent, which isn’t manageable. It’s not right for a young person to face so much pressure. All that stress can make young people in care not want to go to university. And sometimes young people and their foster carers don’t have the option for them to Stay Put, so young people have to decide between going to university or working full-time. What support has been available for you to go to university? On my course I was given a laptop, this was really good financially as it could be a struggle to pay for this otherwise. My local authority provided some funding when I started university to cover rent for my uni accommodation during the holidays. My personal advisor helped to split the money in a way that best supported my needs. How has the pandemic been for you as a university student? The pandemic has been a bit stressful. Everything I thought was going to happen did not happen! I decided to live alone for third year so I was assuming a lot of my socialising would be outside of my accommodation, but then we weren’t allowed to meet up with people. Living on my own was very lonely and boring, especially once face-to-face lectures stopped. I feel worse for the people who started uni for the first time in the pandemic – at least I knew what it was like to have a “proper” experience for the first couple of years! Coming back home to London towards the end of my course was better because I didn’t feel lonely. I knew there were always other people in the house that I could spend time with. How has your foster family helped you during the pandemic? It was good to still able to talk to them and have them supporting me. Moving back home made life a lot easier as I was able to have proper interactions with people after living alone – although it was an adjustment from living independently and doing what I want, to going back living with my family! What needs to change about the care system? Everyone is different but I feel they should provide more support to care leavers. There needs to be teaching on how to budget and not just pushing someone out to be independent. Thank you Kanyin for sharing your experiences! If you would like to learn more about becoming a foster carer, click the button below to get in touch with us. Source: www.stchris.org.uk  Barnardo’s research has uncovered the extent of unsafe, unsuitable and unhealthy accommodation offered to vulnerable young people when they leave care.
The experiences of young people leaving the care system for Barnardo’s No Place Like Home report, funded by IKEA and published today (Tuesday 25 May), paint a grim picture of mouldy housing and shared accommodation where there is antisocial behaviour and drug and alcohol problems. They are in stark contrast to the safety net of parental support most young people enjoy, even after they leave the family home, according to a new online poll of 2,000 adults by YouGov for the leading children’s charity. Of people who have ever moved out of their family home, only one in five (21%) said they received no support at all from them when they first moved out of the family home to live independently. More than 7 in 10 (71%) of 25-34-year-olds who have ever moved out of their family home said they received a lot or a fair amount of support from their parents when they first moved out of the family home to live independently, with 63% saying the support they received helped them to cope with living independently and nearly half (47%) saying they would have struggled to live independently without it. Every year, around 10,000 young people in England aged 16-18 leave local authority care. Barnardo’s found that their experience is often frightening, with some fearing for their safety and living in very poor-quality accommodation – while having to manage alone without family support. The average age for leaving home in England is 23 and people often still receive some support from their parents when they start to live independently. Yet young people who have been in the care system leave at 18 or even younger, meaning many are expected to manage alone before they feel ready. As part of Barnardo’s research project, the charity interviewed 23 care leavers about their experiences, funded by the charity’s corporate partner IKEA. An overwhelming proportion reported that they had had little or no choice about where they moved after leaving care, many found the whole process of finding somewhere to live and moving in to be ‘scary’ and did not feel ready to live independently, saying they had not been prepared with the practical skills needed. The YouGov polling by Barnardo’s revealed that just over 4 in 10 (42%) of 25-34-year-olds who have ever moved out of their family home moved back into their parents’ homes at least once after they’d moved out to live independently. But young people leaving care do not have this option. Many said they felt unsafe in the accommodation they were given, sharing with people with drug and alcohol problems, and ended up on the street or sofa-surfing. One young female care leaver specifically requested not to be in shared accommodation with men, but found herself placed in a property with four older men who hung around the corridors at night. She said: “It really scared me. I locked myself in my room and found it really intimidating going to the bathroom at night.” Another said: “Looking back on it, I now realise how impressionable young people who have had a difficult life are. Someone like me who never did drugs or drink can go into a place and all of that changes.” The interviews revealed that accommodation offered to young people is often of very poor quality with problems like mould and damp. Tasha Clegg moved into her own flat when she left care at the age of 17. She said: “I was excited to have left care and move into my own place. The first day was a massive weight lifted off my shoulders. But I didn’t realise the faults – I wish I had some support when I viewed the property as it wasn’t until later I realised the extent of the mould and damp. “I started feeling unwell all the time – headaches, colds and chest infections. I went to the doctors six times with what was thought to be chest infections. One December I could barely breathe. I could barely walk – it was a huge effort to get up in the waiting room to walk to the doctor’s room. “They thought it was a blood clot on my lung and I had to be rushed to hospital. I had lots of fluid on my lungs which were severely inflamed. It turned out that the mould and damp caused me to have developed lung disease. They did tests of the mould which showed extremely high levels of spores in my blood and further tests showed I had had a reaction the spores. I was in hospital for a week and my lungs have been left permanently scarred. I was on steroids for two years.” According to Barnardo’s YouGov poll, of those who grew up in their parent(s) home, more than a third (37%) received general advice, 30% had help to move home and 29% received emotional support when they first moved out. One in five (20%) got financial help to buy furniture or white goods like washing machines, fridges and microwaves and more than one in 10 had help to pay a deposit (13%) and help to pay rent (11%). The research project found that the costs of setting up a new home was a significant cause of worry and stress to young people leaving the care system, particularly when they moved into unfurnished flats. Care leavers explained that after struggling to meet the costs of living and upkeep of their property, there was often no money left over for travel on public transport to see friends and family. Care leavers have a right to secure accommodation under the Housing Act, but they lose this right if they are deemed ‘intentionally’ homeless. Yet one young person was made homeless as a result of fleeing domestic violence, and others moved out because of the anti-social behaviour of other residents in their semi-independent accommodation. In its No Place Like Home report, Barnardo’s is making several recommendations* to Government, including:
Barnardo’s Chief Executive Javed Khan said: "Many people grow up taking for granted that their parents and wider family will be there to support them well into adulthood. “But after a childhood spent moving between different schools, foster families and social workers, many young people leaving the care system enter adulthood without a strong support network, leaving them particularly vulnerable. “Having a safe and stable home is one of the most important factors in helping care leavers to recover from past trauma, gain qualifications and secure stable employment. Yet our research has demonstrated that care leavers are too often expected to live in conditions that are unsuitable and at worst unsafe. “Some care leavers have no choice but to share with people who have drug and alcohol problems, while others are placed in housing with mould and damp that severely affects their health. In the worst cases, the place they are expected to call ‘home’ feels so unsafe that they end up on the streets. “We wouldn’t accept this for our own children – so we should not accept it for the most vulnerable young people either. “The Government has a unique opportunity to improve the system for care leavers, through the Independent Review of Children's Social Care. We must also make it easier for young people to stay with their foster carers up to the age of 21; and when they do live independently, accommodation must be safe and appropriate to meet their needs.” Peter Jelkeby, Country Retail Manager and Chief Sustainability Officer, IKEA UK & Ireland, said: "At IKEA, we want to have a positive impact on people and the planet. We have partnered with Barnardo's because we firmly believe that no matter what the circumstances, every child and young person deserves a place to call home and the best possible start in life. “For us, home is the most important place in the world. Over the past year, the pandemic has shone an intense spotlight on people’s four walls, as everyone adjusted to spending more time at home. However, not everyone is fortunate enough in considering their home a safe, comfortable space - as is often the case for young people leaving care. “Through this partnership, we aim to support some of the most vulnerable young people to learn independent living skills and to improve their lives at home. But we can't make meaningful change if the system doesn't evolve with the needs of care leavers. We are proud of having supported Barnardo's on this important piece of research, which will hopefully play a significant difference for the lives of young people leaving the care system as part of the Government's Review into Children's Social Care." Source: www.barnardos.org.uk |
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