Examples of innovative frontline practice to support Care Experienced children and young people

Date: 13th May 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Centre for Excellence for Looked after Children

Covid-19 has brought about new ways of working and innovative ideas. CELCIS has put together a range of examples of how people are meeting the challenge of responding to the effects of this public health emergency when supporting care experienced children and young people.

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Resources for college and university staff supporting student carers

Date: 1st March 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

This resource provides materials for colleges and universities to support staff undertaking the Going Higher and Going Further awards, in particular, the Carer Aware at University module.

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ME-WE Project releases manual on how to better support young carers

Date: 1st March 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

ME-WE has published a manual aiming to contribute to the development of an environment in which young carers are able to pursue their goals and thrive, in line with their rights under the UNCRC. It aims to fill the knowledge gap and targets stakeholders from different fields to inform multidisciplinary action to address the needs of young carers.

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Resources for young carers, their family and practitioners

Date: 12th February 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

These resources from Carers Trust Scotland aim to help young carers and family members speak about unpaid caring roles within the family and to reach out for support when it is needed.

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Connect's family engagement academy

Date: 28th January 2021
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

Connect has put together a variety of courses to support family engagement touching upon a range of topics such as: engagement in children’s learning, methods to influence family engagement, ways to work with parent councils and more!

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Media Ambassadors 2020 final film released

Date: 15th January 2021
Category: COVID-19, Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

Together with Media Education , a group of young carers have created an impactful film focusing on who young carers are, their experiences during lockdown and what support they need going forward.

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Childonomics: measuring the impacts of investing in children and families

Date: 9th December 2020
Category: Basic Health and Welfare, Family Environment and Alternative Care, Funding
Author: Eurochild

In the past five years, Eurochild has been working on combining economic discipline with children’s rights. Its conceptual framework and methodology to ‘measure the long-term social and economic return on investing in children and families’, together with the findings of its case studies from Romania and Malta, are now available on its website.

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Podcast series created by care experienced young people

Date: 28th October 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

The podcast started as a way of reflecting on experiences of Covid-19 and later developed into deep discussions about what it means to be care experienced. There are four episodes in our first season so far.

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New website for children on advocacy for children’s hearings

Date: 27th October 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author:

The website aims to help children find and access both support and representation from a children’s advocacy worker for children’s hearings.

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Webinars and toolkits to assist young people who have experience of local authority care and those working with them

Date: 22nd July 2020
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
Author: Clan Childlaw

The webinars cover four issues that Clan Childlaw recognises have been difficult for young people throughout the pandemic, these are: contact with family, moving accommodation, care leavers’ rights to continue care and aftercare and housing and homelessness.

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