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This month on All Things Youth Justice: Chikodi and Jenny sit down with Janik from the Fryday Podcast to discuss the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people and the positive impact it can have.
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The peer researchers on the Joining Up Joining In project have shared the findings of the report - Should Care Experience be a Protected Characteristic . The findings of the report highlighted the views of care experienced young people in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. There is strong support for care experience being a protected characteristic (93%). The significant themes that came out of the work were:
- personal experiences
- stigma and discrimination
- impact of trauma
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Join Chikodi and Jenny on the Youth Justice podcast as they delve into the connection between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and crime with special guest, Crae community navigator from the Phoenix program, sharing his real-life experiences.
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Power to change project presents a Digital media workshop - podcast 001, with young the young people of Leicestershire, this is our first session back after a short break and we enter a new series, this episode was our first back with whole new line up of young people who came to engage, have some fun and learn some of the basics of podcasting and all things digital media so in this first session we allowed them complete freedom to be open and discuss whatever topic that they felt like covering. Enjoy.
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Introduction To Violence Intervention Project with Chikodi and Jenny from Leicestershire Cares
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Leicestershire Cares presents the Joining Up, Joining In Podcast. Joining Up, Joining In aims to give care experienced young people a voice on the issues that matter to them. We’re delivering the project in collaboration with Learning and Work Institute and is funded by the Blagrave Trust.
Young people on the project have recently been exploring whether being care experienced should be recognised in the Equality Act 2010 as a protected characteristic. This is a debate that local authorities are having across the country, following the publication of the Review of Children’s Social Care in England. It was great to welcome Laura Summers from the Violence Reduction Network, Kane Grundy who is volunteering on our project and is a care experienced teacher, as well as Flory and El who are two of the young people participating on the project.
Leicestershire Cares is an award-winning charity which provides a range of support to care experienced young people to help them reach their potential. For more information, visit www.leicestershirecares.co.uk or follow our social media channels @LeicsCares. -
What are care leavers experiences of Universal Credit?
Care leavers face a number of challenges as they prepare to leave the care system and navigate towards living independently at a young age. They often need support to help them move into education, employment or training. However, there is evidence that the welfare system isnât doing enough to support care leavers.
Through consultations with care leavers, desk research and expert interviews, L&W and young people from Leicestershire Cares, Drive Forward and Homes2Inspire have identified six policy changes that we believe would improve care leaversâ experiences of the welfare system and help them to achieve better outcomes.
Proposed policy changes
1. A designated lead at every Jobcentre Plus, focused on care leavers
2. Introduction of a âmarkerâ for care leavers when they enter into the welfare system
3. All care leavers should be entitled to the over-25s rate in Universal Credit
4. Right to advanced payment grant (not loan)
5. Clear step by step escalation protocol for applying sanctions
6. All care leavers should be exempt from paying council tax, up to the age of 25
Improving care leaversâ experiences of the welfare system
About the project
With the support of Lloyds Bank Foundation, Learning and Work Institute (L&W) is working with young people from Leicestershire Cares, Drive Forward and Homes2Inspire to understand care leaversâ experiences of the welfare system.
#CEYPPodcast #CEYP #CareLeavers #TogetherWeCan
@LeicsCares
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This Podcast discusses COVID-19 in different languages to inform our diverse communities of the most frequently asked questions relating to Covid-19 Vaccination and the importance of having the vaccine when offered to us. The aim is to empower our communities to make informed choices and tackle misinformation and cater to these needs in their native languages from trusted voices within their communities.
Twitter: @LeicsCares
#TogetherWeCan
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How can we support more Care Experienced Young People into Employment?
Why might care experienced young people need support into the workplace?
Why should businesses support care experienced young people into employment?
What could businesses do to support care leavers?
What do care experienced young people want businesses to know about them?
This podcast, will give an insight into the issues facing care experienced young people looking for work. It will give ideas on how to support them before and during the recruit process, and when they are in employment.
#PromiseToCare
#Togetherwecan
Twitter: @leicscares
https://www.leicestershirecares.co.uk/about-charity/news-events/
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This Podcast discusses COVID-19 in different languages to inform our diverse communities of the most frequently asked questions relating to Covid-19 Vaccination and the importance of having the vaccine when offered to us. The aim is to empower our communities to make informed choices and tackle misinformation and cater to these needs in their native languages from trusted voices within their communities.
Twitter: @LeicsCares
#TogetherWeCan
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This Podcast discusses COVID-19 in different languages to inform our diverse communities of the most frequently asked questions relating to Covid-19 Vaccination and the importance of having the vaccine when offered to us. The aim is to empower our communities to make informed choices and tackle misinformation and cater to these needs in their native languages from trusted voices within their communities.
Twitter: @LeicsCares
#TogetherWeCan
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This Podcast discusses COVID-19 in different languages to inform our diverse communities of the most frequently asked questions relating to Covid-19 Vaccination and the importance of having the vaccine when offered to us. The aim is to empower our communities to make informed choices and tackle misinformation and cater to these needs in their native languages from trusted voices within their communities.
Twitter: @LeicsCares
#TogetherWeCan
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Leicestershire Caresâ latest care experienced podcast, Fostering a New Approach, explores the issues surrounding being care experienced around Christmas time.
This episode Casey and Diana speak about past experiences, coping mechanisms and things to do.
Christmas can be difficult for care experienced young people. Lots of things shut down such as schools, colleges and universities resulting in those places of safety, connection to friends and community are not there anymore.
People that work with care experienced people (not all) take time off, and lonely isolated people can feel even lonelier.
Social media is filled with photos of warm houses with Christmas trees and presents which can make people that donât have a family to spend time with even more an outsider looking in.
For care experienced young people, this time of year can be tough. Feeling of isolation, bad memories of difficult childhood, empty university halls, regular support services moved to skeleton staff, more drunk people on the streets, loss of routine.
So how do care experienced young people navigate this period?
Taking points
Being with people that understand can helpTry volunteering. It can be rewarding and make you feel connected to othersUse social media for you. Donât let it use youWhatâs the best present for a care leavers?Podcast Information
Social media:
@DianaOmokore
@_caseyarmstrong
Research for this podcast:
Care Leavers Rock | Facebook
The Christmas Dinner http://thechristmasdinners.org.uk/
Letter to all university Vice Chancellorâs about the need to support care experienced young people at their universities over Christmas. https://twitter.com/StandAloneHE/status/1333700554095292416
Government guidelines: ChristmasâŻguidance set out for university students⯠https://www.gov.uk/government/news/christmasguidance-set-out-for-university-students
Get involved in the podcast
If you have a questions for Casey and Diana to discuss on their podcast, tweet them at @LeicsCares #CEYPPODCAST or email [email protected]
For more information about our Voices project contact [email protected]
Find out how we work with care experienced young people
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Leicestershire Caresâ latest care experienced podcast, Fostering a New Approach, explores the issues surrounding care experienced young people and university.
This episode Casey and Diana speak to Kim Emenike, a care leaver and recent graduate from Loughborough University
Only 12% of care leavers make it to University compared with the 43% of the general population who participate, and once there over half of care leavers consider dropping out of university due to a mix of health problems, money worries, high workloads and personal and family issues
It can be hard, but it can also be rewarding, inspiring and life changing. So how can care experienced young people be better supported to make a success in higher education?
Main talking pointsRelying on friendâs parents to drive Kim and her belongings up to university because her corporate parent wouldnâtLiving in a hostel at 17 with no wifi, and finding the self-belief to study for her A-levelsMotivation - Not wanting to be a negative statisticSupport for money is fine, but support of wellbeing can be difficult to findCare experienced young people do not get encouraged to go to university from their corporate parentConversation at 16-18, should be about options for the future, like university, or apprenticeships, or entrepreneurship.Life is not a race. You donât have to go to university at 18.Put yourself out therePodcast InformationSocial media:
@KimEmenike
@DianaOmokore
@_caseyarmstrong
Research for this podcast:Loughborough graduate overcomes the odds to complete her degree and inspire other care leavers to go to university
Why we must do more to support care leavers at university
Care leavers in higher education: how many are there and why does it matter?
Get involved in the podcastIf you have a questions for Casey and Diana to discuss on their podcast, tweet them at @LeicsCares #CEYPPODCAST or email [email protected]
For more information about our Voices project contact [email protected]
Find out how we work with care experienced young people
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Leicestershire Caresâ latest care experienced podcast, Fostering a New Approach, explores the issues surrounding care experienced young people and the criminal justice system. This episode Casey and Diana are joined by Dr Claire Fitzpatrick, a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and the Youth Justice Lead in the Centre for Child & Family Justice Research, at Lancaster University.
This is a massive and complex topic that will take more than todayâs show to unpack, and in future episodes we hope to speak to a range of people involved, from young people with experiences of the criminal justice system, to the people that work within it.
Most children in care do not commit crime, however there is an over-representation of care leavers in the criminal justice system.
Less than 1% of the population have been in the care system, yet a recent review chaired by Lord Laming reports that about 50% of children in custody have been in care.
So why is this? Is it because we are damaged or have complex needs that have not been met? Is it because weâve been let down by family and then by the state?
Or is it more subtle than that? Hidden in the wider systemic problems that exist and affect care experienced young people?
Main talking points
Care experienced young people are under more surveillance compared to their peers.Unnecessary criminalisation of some children in care for minor offences.Changing the narrative from blaming the individual to blaming the systems.Do I offend to get better access to mental health support? The justice setting compared to the community setting.The risk level score. A classification given to care experienced young people. Is it better to elevate the score, so a young person can access higher level of support quicker, but, have live with that risk score hanging over their head?A failings care system and criminal justice system which creates a revolving door. Is this down to the lack of support in society?Diversion is the key.A post code lottery with the support you may get from your local authority.Podcast Information
Find out more about Dr Claire Fitzpatrick and her research
Disrupting the Routes between Care and Custody: Learning from Girls and Women in the Care and Criminal Justice Systems
Social media: Twitter
@CJJFitzpatrick
@CareCustody
@_caseyarmstrong
@DianaOmokore
@LeicsCares
Research for this podcast:
The Conversation. Why have so many people in prison spent time in care as children?
Howard League for Penal Reform. The impact of care-experience across the life-course
Howard League for Penal Reform. Criminal Care?
Gov.UK. Care leavers in prison and probation
Prison Reform Trust: Keeping children in care out of trouble: an independent review
Sampson, Robert J. and John H. Laub. 2016. "Turning Points and the Future of Life-Course Criminology: Reflections on the 1986 Criminal Careers Report." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 53: 321-335. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022427815616992
Get involved in the podcast
If you have a questions for Casey and Diana to discuss on their podcast, tweet them at @LeicsCares #CEYPPODCAST or email [email protected]
For more information about our Voices project contact [email protected]
Find out how we work with care experienced young people
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This week Casey and Diana talk about independent and semi-independent accommodation, which includes hostels, foyer, flats, shared housing and supported living. At the moment these provisions are unregulated so there is no national standard for them and they are not open to inspections from Ofsted.
Main talking points:
When are you really mature enough to only receive support and not care?The pros and cons of living independently or semi-independently.The quality of accommodation. âIf a staff member walks into a room and thinks, I wouldnât sleep in here, then why am I expected to?âThe risks of moving out of your areaWe just want to feel safeResearch
Views of care experienced people sought by the government: Article39.org
https://article39.org.uk/category/unregulated-accommodation/
'Lonely' and 'unsafe': Young people's experiences of unregulated supported accommodation: Children and Young People Now
https://www.cypnow.co.uk/news/article/lonely-and-unsafe-young-people-s-experiences-of-unregulated-supported-accommodation
Unregulated provision â public consultation will be âfundamentally flawedâ without meaningful consultation with children and young people: Article39.org
https://article39.org.uk/2020/04/20/unregulated-provision-consultation-will-be-fundamentally-flawed-without-meaningful-consultation-with-children-and-young-people/
Life
Get involved in the podcastIf you have a questions for Casey and Diana to discuss on their podcast, tweet them at @LeicsCares#CEYPPODCAST or email [email protected]
For more information about our Voices project contact [email protected]
Find out how we work with care experienced young people
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Main talking points:
The relationships built between young mothers in a Baby and Mother unit.Lack of support from the state and the need for charities to support with food, mental wellbeing and isolation.Lockdown rules in a hostel and how they make life harder for mothers and babiesThe feelings of freedom when you walk into your new home.The bare-bones of council accommodation. No carpet, no curtains, no white goods.Setting up your own business as a young mother.Tanisaâs new businessMama Zuri Candles https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MamaZuriCandles
Get involved in the podcastIf you have a questions for Casey and Diana to discuss on their podcast, tweet them at @LeicsCares #CEYPPODCAST or email [email protected]
For more information about our Voices project contact [email protected]
Find out how we work with care experienced young people
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Main talking points:
Casey and Diana talk about the exit strategy which in their eyes, requires the online support that has developed over this time, to stay and for it to now work alongside the face to face interaction with support services.Casey and Diana also call for a bigger push for the Promise to Care, as there will be a need for businesses to step up and strengthen and lead the new community that has blossomed during lockdown. Local governments will probably struggle with more cuts resulting in more care experienced young people missing out on vital support, and charities may need even more help in picking up the pieces and catching the vulnerable ones that fall through the net.Online security will need to be strengthened, and vulnerable people will need help and support in learning how to stay safe online.Video conferencing has worked, and now local authorities can and must utilise it to hear more CEYP voices.Casey and Dianaâs research for this episodeRights group threatens DfE with legal action over relaxation of statutory duties
Charity blasts legislation relaxing duties to children in care under Covid-19 as âdestroying safeguardsâ
Distribution of the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the public health measures on young people's mental health in the United Kingdom (UK) as of March 2020
Get involved in the podcastIf you have a questions for Casey and Diana to discuss on their podcast, tweet them at @LeicsCares #CEYPPODCAST or email [email protected]
For more information about our Voices project contact [email protected]
Find out how we work with care experienced young people
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