Podcasts about looked after children

Ben Kingston-Hughes will be presenting a keynote session at The Voice of Early Childhood Conference on 16th March 2024. Be sure not to miss out!  For 10% off our conference tickets visit: www.thevoiceofearlychildhood.com/early-years-conference-2024/ Ben Kingston-Hughes talks about giving children the chance to be children through experiencing more moments of joy in their lives. Ben gives us insight into the work he does with vulnerable children and the knowledge he has from neuroscience as he explains the power of play, humour, laughter and imagination. Take a look below at all of the thought-provoking points addressed in this episode... Episode breakdown:  00:41 - Why children need joy 01:40 - The English curriculum - EYFS - doesn't mention the word 'joy' 03:12 - A real example of joy changing lives 05:30 - The catastrophic effects on children who don't experience joy 06:20 - Humour and laughter helps to embed learning 09:20 - Immersive narratives: What does this mean? 12:50 - Supporting children's confidence through imagination 14:38 - What's the difference between creativity and imagination 21:24 - The pleasure of writing books 22:30 - The healing power of imagination 25:44 - Why adult's should initiate play, particularly for vulnerable children 27:54 - Creating an environment which makes children feel secure and comfortable 30:52 - Have you forgotten to tell your face to smile? - Consciously checking your body language 32:41 - A funny and embarrassing story from Ben to make us all laugh!  Find out more on The Voice of Early Childhood website: www.thevoiceofearlychildhood.com

In schools, there is a growing blur between the realms of education and care. It has become increasingly evident that school staff are shouldering a tremendous responsibility in addressing mental health concerns, often due to long waiting lists and inconsistent quality of external support services. To shed light on this issue, we are delighted to have Zara Wright Director of SEND at the Weydon Multi Academy Trust, join Dale to discuss 'The boundaries between education and care'. Zara brings valuable insights and expertise and will delve into the complexities and implications of the intertwined roles of education and care in schools. Listen to find out: The real picture of what schools are having to manage as a result of the SEND and mental health crises. Changing roles of school staff due to the increase of mental health difficulties.  Reasonable adjustments and how they work in reality.  Solutions/Considerations for schools to get the balance right between education and care. About Zara Wright Zara is Director of SEND at Weydon Multi Academy Trust and Deputy Headteacher at a MLD school. She has worked in specialist and mainstream educational settings for over 15 years. She is a qualified SENDCo and holds an MEd in Inclusion. She has also worked as Mental Health Lead, DSL and Designated Teacher for Looked After Children. Zara works with a number of local charities and organisations to help promote support for young people and their parents.  She has presented at Westminster Education Forum and The Virtual SEND Conference.  She is currently studying for an MSc in Psychology. Contact Zara https://twitter.com/ZaraWright5   Useful Links ·         B Squared Website – www.bsquared.co.uk  ·         Meeting with Dale to find out about B Squared - https://calendly.com/b-squared-team/overview-of-b-squared-sendcast  ·         Email Dale – dale@bsquared.co.uk  ·         Subscribe to the SENDcast - https://www.thesendcast.com/subscribe

What does it mean to be a “Looked After Child”? We will discuss potential impacts, things churches should be aware of, and how we can help share Christ's love given the different experiences and challenges that looked after children face. Louise Humber Louise is a qualified social worker who has worked within a local authority Children's Services department for 12 years. She has gained a variety of experience most latterly as a senior social worker supervising foster carers. Louise joined Elim's safeguarding department in October 2022 as an Assistant National Safeguarding Coordinator. Grace Saalmans Grace is an Elim Assistant National Safeguarding Coordinator and is also Elim's Early Years Operations Manager. She is a qualified teacher and has taught in early years settings. Prior to this, Grace worked as the Children's, Youth and Families worker in her local Elim church.

What does it mean to be a “Looked After Child”? We will discuss potential impacts, things churches should be aware of, and how we can help share Christ's love given the different experiences and challenges that looked after children face. Louise Humber Louise is a qualified social worker who has worked within a local authority Children's Services department for 12 years. She has gained a variety of experience most latterly as a senior social worker supervising foster carers. Louise joined Elim's safeguarding department in October 2022 as an Assistant National Safeguarding Coordinator. Grace Saalmans Grace is an Elim Assistant National Safeguarding Coordinator and is also Elim's Early Years Operations Manager. She is a qualified teacher and has taught in early years settings. Prior to this, Grace worked as the Children's, Youth and Families worker in her local Elim church.

This time, Nik is joined by Dr Selina Flinders who is a GP in North East Derbyshire and also the safeguarding children lead for her practice. They talk about the BBC drama ‘My Name Is Leon'. Amongst other things, they discuss the challenges of picking up subtle problems in our short primary care consultations; how it's important to see things from the child's point of view, and the red flags to look out for as things unravel in the  home. There's also the usual look at the medical news headlines and the week in daytime TV. Twitter: @BoggledDocs Instagram: @BoggledDocs#BDdoseEmail:        boggleddocs@gmail.comDog on a mop!! https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cg__QTYj4J6/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=Selina song choices:Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think) - Jools Holland and guests https://open.spotify.com/track/0xOD2mFBUkHmRXkWJoywbf?si=W75hmP-HSTatuGLjgCeKdw&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Aenjoy%2520youBorn of frustration - Jameshttps://open.spotify.com/track/0xOD2mFBUkHmRXkWJoywbf?si=W75hmP-HSTatuGLjgCeKdw&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Aenjoy%2520youHeadlineshttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/29/statin-cholesterol-lowering-drug-does-not-commonly-cause-muscle-pain-researcher-sayhttps://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01545-8/fulltext#cestitle150https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1656238/cancer-symptoms-signs-loss-of-bowel-control-bowel-cancerMy Name Is Leonhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00184brhttps://www.thefosteringnetwork.org.ukhttps://learning.nspcc.org.uk/media/1622/statistics-briefing-looked-after-children.pdfNICE  on Looked After Children https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng26/Free course on Adverse Childhood Experiences: https://www.fairhealth.org.uk/course/aces Boggled Docs song of the week is:Everybody's Free ( To Wear Sunscreen) by Baz Luhrmann https://open.spotify.com/track/1TQ6a2NEA8LmKfgf0yeBvT?si=2fyPgTcbReu3Uv6WOFZSvw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A30NOuZiJRlawF26dmWVaJoDISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast.  

The Creative Life Story Work podcast returns in September!Over the last year, we've had sparkling conversations on our podcast, with colleagues whoare delivering Creative Life Story Work with children and young people.We've heard from local authority staff, social workers, evaluators, and professional artists,and we've discussed how this new approach to Life Story Work was developed, and what'sbeen learnt so far.The podcast returns in September – listen in to find out more!In the meantime, you can catch up with all episodes so far at wearebluecabin.com/podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

As a teacher having seen even just the tip of the iceberg of the trauma of looked after children, any organisation or individuals championing these young people get all my love. This is not an easy conversation and it touches on topics that make people feel uncomfortable but it is important. Okela is very thoughtful and this is a super edited version of a conversation of over an hour. We as a community or a country will always be measured by how we treat our most vulnerable people and in my book, care affected children fall into this category. I refer to the prison statistics - children in care are less than one per cent of the population yet 25% of the homeless population and the prison population have spent time in care. These are children who we have failed. Let's try and make a difference!Sister System website: https://www.sistersystem.org/about-usSister System instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sister_system/..........................................................................................................................................................................pod instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anybodyeverybodytottenham/pod website : https://www.anybodyeverybodytottenham.com/pod twitter: https://twitter.com/AnybodyBody

In this episode, Jeannette talks to Jo Balfour, managing director of The Cambridge Rare Disease Network (CRDN). She explains how she went from being a teacher to setting up and running a charity that provides support for the thousands of people with, often untreatable, rare diseases. She and Jeannette cover a wide range of subjects. They discuss how Jo learned to push herself well beyond her comfort zone to grow her skill set and achieve more within her work life.  They talk about, why rare diseases impact far more people than we realise. They discuss the work CRDN, HealX and others do to help people impacted by rare diseases to get their voices heard. An approach that is proving to be highly effective. One that is leading to change. Including better facilities for the disabled, faster diagnosis, more targeted research, new drug, and treatment options. All of this is achieved through rare disease communities that are made up of people who support each other.   KEY TAKEAWAYS There are around 8,000 rare diseases. Only 5% can be effectively treated. With rare diseases, data is powerful. If you think something is not quite right health or development-wise, keep a diary of issues. Find your tribe. Seek out others in a similar situation. They will provide highly targeted guidance and support.  Get involved, and share. Charities need the experience and voices of the people they are there to help. Eighty percent of rare diseases are genetic, so genome sequencing is proving to be an important diagnostic tool. When running a charity that helps people it is vital to listen to those you are trying to help. When working with large groups of people with quite different needs, find the common threads, the core challenges. When you address and find effective solutions for the core challenges you help everyone. Don´t be afraid to take risks and apply for jobs you are not 100% ready for. Learn on the job. Work collaboratively. Recognise and welcome other people´s skills and experience. If you have a passion that drives you, everything will eventually fall into place. Cash donations and fundraising are great. But giving your time and sharing your skills is also a powerful way to help a charity. Big problems get solved step by step. Take that first step. Start with the basics.   BEST MOMENTS ‘I can´t believe I was that brave person who thought I was really ready for those jobs. ´ ‘If you have a passion, the passion will drive your desire to learn.' ‘Just take a risk, learn on the job. You can almost create a role for yourself.' ‘Find your community. You are not alone. There are lots of people out there in the same boat as you.'   If you love what they do, you can support the Cambridge Rare Disease Network and their work through their Just Giving page https://www.justgiving.com/cambridge-rdn or directly via PayPal giving paypal.com/gb/fundraiser/charity/3232065   See how you can support CRDN here https://www.camraredisease.org/fundraising/ Sign up to support CRDN here – https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/invite/HDFHN1/  Through easyfundraising you can raise FREE donations for CRDN every time you shop online with over 6,000 retailers. John Lewis, Argos, Tui, Uswitch, eBay and many more are waiting to give a free donation.  Or use Amazon Smile (it's Amazon as you know it but automatically makes a 0.5% donation in your purchases.Sign up to choose Cambridge Rare Disease Network here https://smile.amazon.co.uk/ch/1166365-0 and make your shopping mean twice as much    This is the perfect time to get focused on what YOU want to really achieve in your business, career, and life. It's never too late to be BRAVE and BOLD and unlock your inner BRILLIANCE. If you'd like to join Jeannette's FREE Business Impact Seminar just DM Jeannette at info@jeannettelinfootassociates.com or sign up via Jeannette's linktree https://linktr.ee/JLinfoot    VALUABLE RESOURCES Brave, Bold, Brilliant podcast series - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/brave-bold-brilliant-podcast/id1524278970   EPISODE RESOURCES LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/balfourjo Cambridge Rare Disease Network (CRDN) website: https://www.camraredisease.org/about-crdn/ Healx website: https://healx.io/ Shop via Amazon Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/charity?orig=%2F   ABOUT THE GUEST Jo Balfour is a founding member of CRDN and Managing Director.  She directs and controls the charity's operations and to gives strategic guidance and direction to the board.  Read Jo's background here in the Womanthology Magazine. Jo leads the creative and operational development of CRDN's unique and innovative events programme to raise awareness about rare disease and promote cross-sector collaboration. She is the founder of the charity's regional rare disease community group, Unique Feet, and oversees all other aspects of the charity's work. From a background in Special Educational Needs Management and as an advisor for Looked After Children in schools, Jo's 25 year career in education has been one which offered support and challenge to schools to provide the best care for young people living in exceptional circumstances to enable them to achieve aspirational goals in all aspects of their lives. She has continued this ethos of support and challenge into her work in rare diseases, aspiring to a world where all those affected by rare diseases receive exceptional care, treatment and support.   ABOUT THE HOST Jeannette Linfoot is a highly regarded senior executive, property investor, board advisor, and business mentor with over 25 years of global professional business experience across the travel, leisure, hospitality, and property sectors. Having bought, ran, and sold businesses all over the world, Jeannette now has a portfolio of her own businesses and also advises and mentors other business leaders to drive forward their strategies as well as their own personal development. Jeannette is a down-to-earth leader, a passionate champion for diversity & inclusion, and a huge advocate of nurturing talent so every person can unleash their full potential and live their dreams.    CONTACT THE HOST Jeannette's linktree  https://www.jeannettelinfootassociates.com/ YOUTUBE LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Email - info@jeannettelinfootassociates.com Podcast Description Jeannette Linfoot talks to incredible people about their experiences of being Brave, Bold & Brilliant, which have allowed them to unleash their full potential in business, their careers, and life in general. From the boardroom tables of ‘big' international businesses to the dining room tables of entrepreneurial start-ups, how to overcome challenges, embrace opportunities and take risks, whilst staying ‘true' to yourself is the order of the day. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kiz Bangerh (now Manley) is the founder of Hip Hop Heals. Here's how she describes herself on her website: "I lost my older sister, Promila, in a car accident in 2000. After, I suffered a delayed traumatised grief reaction. I was an English Literature graduate and keen writer but experienced a creative block that lasted ten years. During this time, I trained as a secondary English teacher, and enjoyed a fruitful career in museum and gallery education. When my father died in 2010, I was in recovery from a delayed traumatised grief reaction and a breakdown. This is when I discovered therapeutic writing. My writer's block came undone. I already had an MA in Literature and decided to do an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes to share what I'd learnt about self-healing through creativity. I set up Hip Hop HEALS, a mental health project that tackles mental health inequalities in disadvantaged groups, particularly BAME groups, young people and men. We deliver poetry therapy-style workshops in schools, probation centres, mental health units and homeless hostels. I am also now Director of Story with Lapidus International and Communications Director for its academic research journal, LIRIC, as well as Lived Experience Champion for LENS Network (Lived Experience Network). Outside of work, I run Dubgasm: a social action fundraiser for Brum's foodbank and homeless communities. I still love teaching and tutor Looked After Children in my spare time. Recently, I was selected for Lloyd's Bank's School for Social Entrepreneurs to develop Hip Hop HEALS into a social enterprise business with a grant of £1000. Through this, I've been developing mental health resources using Hip Hop's central tenet: ‘Knowledge of Self'. My goal is to spread knowledge and research about the therapeutic power of Hip Hop culture. My thesis on this topic applied narrative and poetic inquiry to interpret MC interviews (available on request: hiphophealsuk@gmail.com)" Kiz spoke in detail about these experiences. This includes some graphic description of her sister's car crash - so be aware of this particularly towards the later part of the interview (1:00:13-1:01:37). She talks about her PTSD and how her creative process has helped her to integrate traumatic memories. Resources: Hip Hop Heals website home page: https://www.hiphophealsuk.org/  Glowitheflow Podcast: hiphophealsuk.org/podcast  Trauma Research Foundation (includes videos on Hip Hop Therapy): Trauma Research Foundation - YouTube Feeling the Beat: TRF Tuesday Therapeutic Applications of Hip Hop Workshop Series Week 1 - YouTube References: Afonu, D. (2015). Hip-Hop As Community Psychology?: A Participatory Research Project with Adolescent Co-Researchers (Doctoral dissertation, University of East London). Allen, T. N., & Randolph, A. (2020). Listening for the Interior in Hip-hop and R&B Music. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 6(1), 46-60. Kirkland, K., & King, S. (2019). Rap and recovery: A music therapy process-oriented intervention for adults with concurrent disorders. www. approaches. gr ISSN 2459-3338, 70. Levy, I. P. (2019). Hip-hop and spoken word therapy in urban school counseling. Professional School Counseling, 22(1b), 2156759X19834436. Travis, R., Gann, E., Crooke, A. H., & Jenkins, S. M. (2019). Hip Hop, empowerment, and therapeutic beat-making: Potential solutions for summer learning loss, depression, and anxiety in youth. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 29(6), 744-765.  

Barbara Lawrence and Rhona Hamilton discuss domestic violence with special guest Dr Norma Sarsby, Head of Safeguarding and Looked After Children in Croydon.

Barbara Lawrence and Rhona Hamilton discuss the effects of domestic abuse on children with special guest Dr Norma Sarsby, Head of Safeguarding and Looked After Children in Croydon.

It's a school designed to look after some of Jersey's most vulnerable children, but it's been likened to a “containment facility”.La Sente was established in 2018, in the wake of the Care Inquiry and a pledge from Government to ‘put children first'.The name was chosen as it is Jèrriais for ‘the path', reflecting the school's mission to help children with complex emotional, social and behavioural needs become their "best or true self."But guardians of the school's pupils, individuals involved in child welfare, and even the Children's Commissioner have told Express that such a description couldn't be further from the truth…

This episode of the SecEd Podcast focuses on how schools can best support both SEN students and looked after children as we continue our recovery from the coronavirus lockdown. We discuss what barriers to education and wellbeing these children are facing so far this term and offer practical suggestions for how schools and teachers can support them. Topics include interventions, whole-school approaches, parental engagement, curriculum design and examination preparation. Featuring Paddy Smith, Head of Student Welfare at Bede Academy in Northumberland; Garry Freeman, an experienced SENCO and National SEND System Leader; Clare Brokenshire, Head of Faculty with Academy 21.

Married couple, Marika & Kurt chat about the many perspectives in foster care and the ways we can all do better by our kidsIn our first season, we focus on an oft overlooked part of the US Foster Care system - Transitions. We start our first interview today with the most important person in Foster Care - the kids. Jean is a FFY (former foster youth - she's an adult now) who went into the system at age 9. We talk with her about her experience and how it has affected her life. We ask her the most important question of all - How did changing homes impact you? What could the grown ups have done to make transitions easier?Our podcast features music by Chris Haugen "Tupelo Train"And graphic design by Kenney Ogilvie.......................................................................................................................The paper we mention in this episode called "The Children Were Fine" can be downloaded from their website www.thechildrenwerefine.co.ukHere's what they say about the studies they've undertaken:"As child psychotherapists working within a Looked After Children’s team, we became concerned about the ways in which children were being moved from foster care into adoption. In our view this was being done very quickly, and with very little contact between children and their foster carers afterwards. Finding a complete lack of research into this area, we carried out a piece of qualitative research, interviewing foster carers, adopters and social workers to analyse in detail five children’s moves into adoption. We found that the emotional experience of the child, particularly their experience of losing their foster carer, became less prominent in people’s minds during this transition. In what is a highly anxious time for the adults we found that for very understandable reasons they lost sight of what was happening emotionally for the child. ​​We hope this research will generate some much ­needed debate and further research into children’s moves into adoption, or indeed any move from one carer to another. We believe what is needed is a better integration of theory and practice so that we become more sensitive to children’s experiences during this transition, keeping the emotional experience of the child central in people’s minds."​

Eavan Brady on some of the findings from her PhD which focused on looked after children and educational outcomes across the life course and we ask what are the implications of emerging research?

Trigger warningThis content discusses issues of self-harm, mental health and suicide. Please take the time to consider your own mental health, and seek support if you need it. In the UK, the Samaritans can be reached for free on 116 123.Welcome to Learn on the go, a Community Care Inform podcast where we discuss what the latest research, practice models and policy guidance mean to your practice.This episode is about looked-after children and self-harm. It covers what self-harm is, why looked-after children are more at risk of self-harming, and how social workers can support young people and carers. Discussing these questions are Judith Furnivall, lecturer and consultancy lead at the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection at the University of Strathclyde, and Dr Eileen Harkness-Murphy, lecturer at the School of Health and Life Sciences in the University of the West of Scotland. The questions were asked by Ruth Hardy, content editor at Community Care Inform.2:34: What is self-harm and what behaviours can it include?7:30: Research suggests that about half of looked-after children meet the criteria for a mental health disorder, which is a much higher figure than the general population. Why is this?12:44: What are the risk factors for self-harm?22:59: How can social workers support young people waiting for a mental health referral?27:40: General good practice principles when working with young people who self-harm.This content covers some difficult and sensitive issues, so please take the time to consider your own mental health, and seek support if you need it. In the UK, the Samaritans can be reached for free on 116 123.ReferencesBeautrais, A L (2000)'Risk factors for suicide and attempted suicide among young people'Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 34, pp236–420Brophy, M; Holmstrom, R and Flynn, K (2006)Truth HurtsReport of the National Inquiry into Self-harm among Young PeopleCukrowicz, K; Wingate, L; Driscoll, K and Joiner, T (2004)'A standard of care for the assessment of suicide risk and associated treatment: The Florida State University Psychology Clinic as an example'Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, Volume 34, pp87-100Hales, H; Davison, S; Misch, P and Taylor, P J (2003)'Young male prisoners in a young offenders’ institution: their contact with suicidal behaviour by others'Journal of Adolescence, Volume 26, pp667-685Harkess-Murphy, E (2011)'Self-harm and psychosocial risk characteristics : a study of three student cohorts within West Central Scotland'PhD Thesis, University of the West of ScotlandHarkness-Murphy, E; Macdonald, J and Ramsay, J (2013)'Self-harm and psychosocial characteristics of looked after and looked after and accommodated young people'Psychology, Health and Medicine, Volume 18, Issue 3, pp289-99Hasking, P; Momeni, R; Swannell, S and Chia, S (2008)'The Nature and Extent of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in a Non-Clinical Sample of Young Adults'Archives of Suicide Research, Volume 12, pp208-218Hawton, K; Rodham, K; Evans, E and Weatherall, R (2002)'Deliberate self harm in adolescents: self report survey in schools in England'British Medical Journal, Volume 325, pp1207-1211House of Commons Education Committee (2016)Mental health and wellbeing of looked-after childrenLondon, House of CommonsMeltzer, H; Lader, D; Corbin, T; Goodman, R and Ford, T (2004)The mental health of young people looked after by local authorities in ScotlandEdinburgh: The Stationery OfficeMental Health Foundation (undated)The Truth About Self-harmLondon, Mental Health FoundationMind (2016)Understanding Self-harmLondon, MindMuehlenkamp, J J; Hoff, E R; Licht, J-G; Azure, J A and Hasenzahl, S J (2008)'Rates of non-suicidal self-injury: A cross-sectional analysis of exposure'Current Psychology: A Journal for Diverse Perspectives on Diverse Psychological Issues, Volume 27, Issue 4, pp234-241NICE (2014)Self-harm: SummaryNICE Clinical Knowledge SummariesO’Connor, R C and Nock, M K (2014)'The psychology of suicidal behaviour'The Lancet. Psychiatry, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp73–85O’Connor, R; Rasmussen, S; Miles, J and Hawton, K (2009a)'Deliberate self-harm in adolescents: self-report survey in schools in Scotland'British Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 194, pp68-72Prinstein, M J; Heilbron, N; Guerry, J D; Franklin, J C; Rancourt, D; Simon, V and Spirito, A (2010)'Peer Influence and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: Longitudinal Results in Community and Clinically-Referred Adolescent Samples'Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Volume 38, pp669-682Scottish Government (2011)Responding to Self Harm in Scotland: final reportEdinburgh, The Scottish Government

Michelle Drumm interviews Ben Farrugia, Director of Social Work Scotland. Ben held a variety of policy roles down in London (with a particular interest in education and children's services). In 2009, he moved up to Scotland to work in the government’s Looked After Children team and in 2011 moved to the University of Strathclyde to join the team that would soon after become CELCIS. In his own words, he is 'now very proud to be leading Social Work Scotland’s small Edinburgh based team, which provides support to various committees and groups, and represents members in discussions with Parliament, Government and other partners'. Freshly Squeezed is an Iriss podcast which aims to 'squeeze' information and inspiration from key influencers in social services in Scotland. Transcript of episode Music Credit: Make your dream a reality by Scott Holmes

A fantastic folk rock CD to raise funds for Looked After Children. The post 086 Jenni Randall & her Looked After children project appeared first on Thoughts On The Social World.

Michelle Drumm interviews Professor Jennifer Davidson, Executive Director of Inspiring Children's Futures at the University of Strathclyde, which incorporates the Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS). Jennifer is driven by a commitment to ensuring children's rights have an impact on children's day-to-day lived experiences, and on the reality of international rights improving local children's services throughout the world. Her range of leadership positions in child and youth care, social work and professional education spans Canada, the United States and the UK. She has served on national and international committees related to children's services, and was a founding member of the US National Campaign for the Ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Freshly Squeezed aims to 'squeeze' information and inspiration from key influencers in social services in Scotland. Transcript of episode Music Credit: Make your dream a reality by Scott Holmes

Full show notes here Born and Bred in South Shields, where he stills lives with Trish their four kids and Max the Dog. He has only ever lived out of the town for 15 years and never anticipates repeating the mistake.. A circuitous route led to him going from accountancy to degree to sales to lecturing to eventually taking up his current role as Executive Director of The Customs House Trust which he has held since January 2000. During his tenure The Customs House , once described as having neither national or regional significance has established itself as part Arts Council England’s National Portfolio of arts Organisations.(NPO) Successfully delivering national programmes Creative Partnerships, Find Your Talent and Night Less Ordinary. The Customs House is Particularly proud of its work with Children & Young People and was created a centre of Best Practice by Trinity College London for its deliver of Arts Award training, it continues to be the regional lead on Arts Award training teachers and staff of cultural organisations. The Customs House is particularly proud of its work with Looked After Children for which it received a national award. The Customs House remains a centre for Talent Development with many young people making their first steps towards a career in the arts at The Customs House. He also spent 25 summers creating the much loved character Tommy the Trumpeter who’s legendary parties and pantomime appearances entertained generations of children. He currently writes & directs The Customs House pantomime appearing as Dame Bella. He remains a much sort after host and after dinner speaker. A school governor ray recently became patron of Waves – Additional Needs support Group. He is Chair of The Chloe & Liam Together Forever Trust. Ray was awarded MBE for services to northeast theatre in 2010. Hon. Fellowship University Of Sunderland Hotspur Award Northumbria Association Lifetime Achievement Pride of South Tyneside Awards Lifetime Achievement STEP Awards WOW AWARD Johnson Press Show Sponsors:- Far North Sales & Marketing Far North Sales & Marketing Consultancy are all-encompassing Business Development specialists, our aim is growth, your growth. We understand that the overhead of permanent experienced members of a team may be a step too far, maybe you would like to take a product to market, run a fresh pair of eyes over the sales process or just get over a lean period, we can help.

Marcia explains why Throw it Out was set up and how netball suffers the same issues that we find in everyday life. Marcia talks about the early findings of her PHD, which is about the Educational Attainment of Looked-After Children. Marcia previously worked at the Voice newspaper and the Pride magazine and talks about her experience there. Also commenting on the popularity of these types of media today. Marcia talks about her input in the training of police officers following the Macpherson Report published in 1999. Marcia explains what the Parent Action and Resource Centre (PARC) have been up to over the last year including conferences and workshops. The training provided for parents to enable them to support their children through their education, including advocacy training to help parents deal with exclusions. Marcia talks about the upcoming event on 28th October 2017, for more details or to contact PARC: Website: http://parentsactionresource.org.uk/ Email: info@parentsactionresource.org.uk Facebook: Parents action resource centre Twitter: @uk_parc

Tyrone participated in the Youth Employability and Skills project at The Lowry and completed a Bronze Arts Award. Luke was on the Looked After Children and Care Leavers project, also at The Lowry, and completed a Silver Arts Award. They both discuss their arts experiences whilst working towards their individual awards and what they took from them.

Tyrone participated in the Youth Employability and Skills project at The Lowry and completed a Bronze Arts Award. He is joined by Luke, who was on the Looked After Children and Care Leavers project and completed a Silver Arts Award. Here Tyrone explains what he did for his skills-share, after which the conversation moves to how they both feel about working with other people.

Professor Julie Selwyn, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the Education Department public seminar series. It is increasingly recognised that understanding subjective well­being (SWB) – or asking people how they feel about their own lives ­ is key to developing policy that supports our quality of life. The Measuring What Matters programme (Office of National Statistics, 2011) concluded that people’s objective circumstances can improve but this does not necessarily translate into feeling that life is improving. For example, crime can go down, but people do not report feeling more secure. The ONS and the Children's Society have done a great deal of work on the SWB of children in the general population but little is known about the SWB of children in care. Currently only objective measures are collected by the DfE such as educational results, number of teen pregnancies and we do not know how children themselves feel about their own lives in care. Do they identify the same elements as important to their well­being as do children in general population and how might their well­being be measured? What is important to children in care? This seminar focuses on the development of an on­line survey Our Lives Our Care to measure the SWB of children in care and the findings from the first 611 children to complete it. Eighteen focus groups were held involving 140 children and young people to understand their perceptions of what was important to their well­ being. Although there were domains of well­being that were held in common with children in the general population, looked after children identified other domains and their emphasis differed. The work is the product of the Bright Spots Programme, a long­ standing partnership between the Children’s Rights charity Coram Voice and the University of Bristol with the generous support of the Hadley Trust.The programme aims to improve the care experiences of young people by enabling local authorities to find out directly from young people about how they are doing in the areas that are important to them and what needs to change for the better. During 2016. 611 children and young people completed the surveys with some surprising results.

We had a great time talking to Rob Jewell this week. Rob is Strategic Leader for Looked-After Children in the Gower consortium covering six boroughs in North Wales. Something of an educational celebrity in Wales, Rob shares his insights into the Welsh educational system as well as his experience of supporting looked-after children for many years. … Continue reading Rob Jewell on looked-after children and why Welsh education has got it right – PP118 →

Professor David Berridge University of Bristol, Professor Judy Sebba, Dr Nikki Luke and Professor Steve Strand, Department of Education give a talk for the Education Seminar Series. The respondent is Ms Emma Ing, Senior HMI Ofsted. This study investigates the relationships between young people’s experiences in the care system and their educational achievements in secondary school. Using a mixed methods approach, we explored the relationship between educational outcomes, young people’s care histories and individual characteristics by linking the educational data collected annually in the National Pupil Database (NPD) and the care history data (SSDA903) for the cohort of children in care who completed exams in 2013. Outcomes for children with different characteristics and the relationships between outcomes and placement type and stability, school stability and length of time in care were explored. These statistical analyses were complemented by in-depth qualitative interviews with young people in six local authorities and with adults significant in their educational careers, to explore what might be done to improve the progress of secondary school pupils in care. The presentation will cover the key factors that were associated with young people’s educational outcomes, including individual characteristics, early environment, and experiences in care and at school. We will also discuss the potential for the resulting evidence to inform policy and practice, as identifying the relationships between care experiences and educational progress will enable schools and services for children and young people to better support their education and improve outcomes. A response will be provided by Emma Ing, Senior HMI Ofsted, East Midlands Region.