Our current projects

Our projects all share a common aim: to enable children in care to thrive. Through our work with young people, carers, education professionals and social workers we want to help children in and from care to be happy, healthy and successful.

Here’s a taste of what we’re working on at the moment. We’d love to hear from you if you have any thoughts about what we’re doing, or suggestions for future projects – please leave a comment at the bottom of this page.

Comments

1. andy sumpter says:

   I thought you might be interested in some work which is currently being undertaken by the NLP academy. (n.b. I have no connection to the academy other than being a subscriber to their resources). http://www.nlpacademy.co.uk/articles/view/nlp_for_social_change/ I am a senior lecturer in social work and have used nlp in my practice, management and teaching. I am currently writing a chapter on solution focused approaches and nlp for inclusion in a book on social work methods. I will also soon be supervising a research associate working to improve outcomes for young people in the ‘intensive residential sector’. rnThe apsects of nlp I find particularly relevant to these settings at present are often around rapport, communication, outcomes and beliefs, especially limiting beliefs. Many of the people I have worked with have very limited ideas about their abiity to make a difference to what appear to be overwhelming problems or experiences. This may be a ‘result’ of abuse or trauma, family experiences, poverty, discrimination etc. And yet, some people have had these experiences and been in some sense strengthened by them. For example I remember one person saying to me that they had already experienced the worst thing that could happen so they knew that they could deal with anything. I’d be really interested to hear from anyone using nlp in social work settings, schools, prisons etc. and especially people interested in developing a better evidence base. I know from my own experience that nlp ‘works’ and we need to find ways of extending this to the poorer and more ‘excluded’ parts of society.rnThis is a copy of the comments I made on their website

2. Bex says:

   My mum runs a care home and I was wondering if you could do more about children of foster carers and recognizing them, I love your magazines! Thank you =]

3. Bex says:

   ... also I think a radio station would be a great idea! You could get all sorts of people involved, even if it was only on the internet

4. Jemma, The Who Cares? Trust says:

   Hi Bex, my name's Jemma and I work at The Who Cares? Trust. Thanks for writing in to us, I'm really glad that you enjoy reading our magazines. I think that you're right, we should do more about children of foster carers. I'll suggest it to our magazine editor as a potential article. We would love to have a radio station for children in care, but we're a really small charity so we just don't have the resources - fantastic idea though!

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