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Working in Partnership to Support Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children

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Aug 2023

Local authorities and organisations have a duty to protect unaccompanied asylum seeking children when they are in their care. In this video, Bristol City Council discusses the partnership work they have undertaken with local stakeholders to best support unaccompanied asylum seeking children and provide the them with the care they need.

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Improving Outcomes for Children in Care

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Aug 2023

According to the Office for National Statistics, in 2022 82,170 children were recorded as being looked after by local authorities in England. In this video, Become discuss improving the outcomes of children in care and the importance of listening to care leavers to understand what is meant by a successful care leaver story.

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Improving Outcomes in Children’s Services through Quality Improvement

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May 2023

Children’s services receive one contact every 4.8 seconds, with a 19% increase in referrals between 2008 and 2020. Steve Walker, the director for the Strengthening Families Protecting Children Programme (SFPC) within Leeds City Council, discusses the importance of working with families to improve the lives of children growing up in Leeds. Through a ‘Family Valued’ approach, he highlights the importance of service users to the design of an effective child support model.

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Improving Care Outcomes for Children with Disabilities

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Mar 2023

As of March 2022, there were 80,000 children living in care in England. Sharon Howard, Assistant Director of Lifespan, the Disabled Children and Young People's Service at Kent County Council discusses the multidisciplinary pathway the service has developed through partnership working to deliver support to disabled young people and their families.

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Collaborating with Former Care Leavers to Inform Support Services

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Jan 2023

In 2022, 80,850 children and young people in England were recorded to be in the care system. In this video Isabelle Kirkham, care leaver, and Youth Network Member, Become discusses her own experiences of the care system, highlighting how those leaving care need to be included in conversations to improve support systems to ensure children in care get the help they need from authorities.

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Case Studies

Streamlining the Transition Between Child and Adult Safeguarding Services

6 minute read

Nov 2022

Child and adult safeguarding services share the aim of protecting people from harm, however, they are guided by different practices. There needs to be more guidance in place to help ease the transition between services and streamline practice when a person reaches adulthood. This case study looks at how Birmingham City Council Preparation for Adulthood service helps young people with this transition.

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Interviews

In conversation: Supporting Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children

12 minute read

Jun 2022

In 2020 around 43% of those seeking asylum in the UK were women and children. Of these, 8% were children who arrived in the country without a parent or guardian. We spoke to Coventry City Council, about they are working with local partners to provide more holistic care for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

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Voluntary Sector Leadership: Managing Finances as a Small Charity

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Mar 2022

The Young Barnet Foundation work to bring charities and organisations together to support and build capacity in the CYP voluntary sector across the London Borough of Barnet. We heard from their CEO, Janet Matthewson on their leadership strategy and their pioneering community work.

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Children in Care: Supporting Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children to Adjust to Life in the UK

21 minute watch

Feb 2022

Hampshire is seeing the arrival of more and more unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC). We heard from Sarah Coles, Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Consultant, Hampshire County Council about ways that schools and carers can best support these children with their integration into UK life.

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Case Studies

Supporting Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children to Adjust to Life in the UK

7 minute read

Feb 2022

Local authorities are continuously working to understand how best to integrate unaccompanied asylum-seeking children into UK schools and foster homes. We heard from Sarah Coles, Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Consultant at Hampshire County Council on their recommendations for how schools and carers can best support these children.

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Using Data and Performance Measures to Drive Improvements in Children’s Services

5 minute read

Nov 2021

Data is a powerful tool for monitoring the performance of children’s services. Alastair Lee of East Sussex County Council and the Children’s Services National Performance and Information Management Group shared recommendations on how to use data and effectively how to use data to improve the outcomes of disadvantaged children.

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Children in Care: Utilising Lived Experiences to Inform Strategies for Looked after Children

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May 2021

Kayleigh Jones, Advisory Board Member at Become, spoke about using lived experience in service design at The Children in Care Conference, 2021.

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