National Care Leavers Week
The focus of National Care Leavers’ Week this year is on the many local events which are taking place in Local Authorities across the UK. Details of these events will be updated throughout September and October, so please do let us know what is going on in your area.
In the weeks leading up to National Care Leavers’ Week a number of focus groups are taking place as part of a study being carried out on our behalf by QA Research in association with Children and Young People Now Magazine. The outcomes from this study will be published during National Care Leavers’ Week at an event in London on 29th October in central London. Please click here for further details or email NCLW@brynmelyngroupfoundation.org to make a booking.
In Wales the Welsh Assembly Government is sponsoring an interactive conference event in partnership with the All Wales Leaving Care Forum with the purpose of assisting the WAG to formulate their policy towards care leavers within the Strategy for Vulnerable Children. This event takes place a little earlier in the month on Tuesday 14th October, however we hope to feature the decisions of the conference during NCLW. The contact for this event is karla.courtney@barnardos.org.uk or click here for further details.
A Facebook space for and by care leavers will be launched during the week – look out for further details – and the second National Care Leavers’ Week magazine will be published and made widely available. Please contact us if you would like to receive copies.
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