WE ARE LIVED EXPERIENCE LEADERS WHO ENGAGE, INSPIRE AND SUPPORT TRANSFORMATION FOR CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Children deserve to leave services in a better place than when they entered; it is within our power to make this happen.
OUR SERVICES
SERVICE DEVELOPMENTS
Vision Development Service Design
Youth Partipication
Workshops
Fostering Recrutiment
We don’t just understand children's services.
Our leaders have lived through them.
Our leaders have both professional and personal experience of children’s services and have supported the development of some of the UK’s most innovative projects, connecting leaders with lived experience; co-designing new services; created organisational visions and new models of youth participation.
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Ten years’ experience across multiple organisations and projects has shown us the value of an external voice, a new perspective and close partnership working in enabling change. That is why we work with you in the way we do to support your organisation’s developmental ambitions.
We have supported the work of:
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North Yorkshire County Council – No Wrong Door
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The Fostering Network – Mockingbird Family Model
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The House Project – Care Leavers National Movement
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Innovation Unit – Make York Home
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Middlesbrough Borough Council – Middlesbrough Children Matter
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Department for Education – Children’s Social Care Innovation Fund
HOW TO WORK WITH US
We partner with organisations who put children at the heart of what they do.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
Michelle Johnson, Oxfordshire Virtual School Head
‘Oxfordshire Virtual School are privileged to have commissioned The Care Leaders to lead a 6 month project for us involving children and young care leavers. The Care Leaders authentic knowledge and inspiring ability to develop trusting relationships with all stakeholders, enabled this project to be delivered with the highest outcomes. We found The Care Leaders receptive and enthusiastic from start to finish and his creative skills when working with young people and care leavers empowered and connected each of them with their communities, thus creating amazing results.
THE POWER TO PROVIDE CHILDREN WITH THE SERVICES THEY NEED
We know from professional and lived experience the opportunities and challenges of engaging adults and young people in change, particularly in the face of the unprecedented pressures of Covid.
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We know from our own experience of working with leaders committed to change the power of connecting strategy and lived experience, unlocking creative energy and working flexibly online and face to face. Ten years’ experience across multiple organisations and projects has shown us the value of an external voice, a new perspective and close partnership working in enabling change. That is why we work with you in the way we do to support your organisation’s developmental ambitions.