Roseanna Elizabeth.·Jun 5, 2025No Child Should Be Vilified: Fury Over Councillor’s Comments on Care-Experienced Youth.Reform UK councillor Andy Osborn recently referred to children in care as “downright evil” during a council meeting. This isn’t just an…
Rach Triangles·Mar 3, 2023Triangles- Co-design with Young People with experience of seeking safety in the UK as unaccompanied…“When we’re all together, nothing is difficult” A- young person on Triangles.
InService Design at Barnardo’sbyIrit Pollak·Nov 17, 2021Can reducing loneliness increase online resilience for care-experienced young people?In 2020 the NSPCC published a landmark report evidencing lonely children in the UK are twice as likely to be groomed online. Later in the…
Lys Stone·Aug 9, 2021Care-experienced identity: Why should we care?Identity is rarely prioritised within social work practice as a developmental need of importance for care-experienced individuals, despite…
Charlotte Armitage·May 18, 2021Care Experienced History Month 2021From an idea over coffee to a globally recognised campaign
InService Design at Barnardo’sbySohila Sawhney·May 6, 2021Building the evidence base for supporting late entrants to care: Part IIIIn the first and second blog posts in this series, I highlighted our strategic approach to understanding the experiences of late entrants…
InService Design at Barnardo’sbySohila Sawhney·Apr 21, 2021Building the evidence base for supporting late entrants to care: Part IIIn this post, I describe the lessons learned from getting our Discovery research up and running, and the impact of Covid on our plans.
InService Design at Barnardo’sbyIrit Pollak·Oct 1, 2020Design Lab — how co-production can instigate systems change (Part 3)In Post 01 and Post 02 I shared how the Care Journeys team worked with care-experienced young people to co-produce services to reduce…
Charlotte Armitage·Jan 28, 2020I’m ready, why can’t you see it?Today, Scottish Charity, MCR Pathways released research that highlighted that children in care can achieve the same academic results and…