Staying Connected: The views of looked after young people on their contact arrangements

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Staying Connected: The views of looked after young people on their contact arrangements

Staying connected explores the views and experiences of children in care shared through the Your Life, Your Care surveys. It analyses over 7,500 responses and 3,000 comments to questions about spending time with their birth parents, brothers and sisters.

Published 1 May 2022 By Shirley Lewis, Julie Selwyn and Linda Briheim-Crookall

What Makes Life Good: Care leavers’ views on their well-being (2020)

For this major report, we analysed responses from 1,804 care leavers in 21 local authorities in England collected between 2017 and 2019 through Coram Voice’s Your Life Beyond Care survey. The study was carried out in collaboration with Coram Voice and the Rees Centre, University of Oxford.

Published 8 April 2022 By Linda Briheim-Crookall, Olivia Michelmore, Claire Baker, Oluwanifemi Oni, Sarah Taylor, Julie Selwyn

New Belongings Programme: Baseline evaluation report (2021)

New Belongings is a three-year programme (2019-2022) being delivered by Coram Voice. The programme works with eight local authorities in England, supporting them to engage care leavers in service improvements using a co-production approach.

Published 23 August 2021 By Dr Anna Ludvigsen and Dr Sarah Taylor

An Evaluation of the Bright Spots Programme

This evaluation explored how local authorities (LAs) had used the findings from the Bright Spots surveys to improve the lives of the children they look after.

Published 1 April 2021 By Dr Shirley Lewis, Julie Selwyn and the Bright Spots team

The Voices of Children In Care and Care Leavers on What Makes Life good: Recommendations for Reviewing the Care System

The Voices of Children in Care and Care Leavers on What Makes Life Good focuses on what care-experienced children and young people have said about their wellbeing, drawing on Coram Voice’s ongoing work with thousands of care-experience children and young people.

Published 1 November 2020 By Coram Voice and the Rees Centre

Bright Spots: Challenging Stigma in the Care System

Our Insight paper: ‘Challenging Stigma in the care system’, shares what children and young people have told us about stigma, what they want to see from services and gives examples of how local authorities have worked with children in care and care leavers to challenge stigma.

Published 1 March 2020