Keeley Stephenson, ©JR Schwarz
After completing her bachelor’s degree in Youth Studies, Keeley put together a handbook encouraging better relations between foster parents and children in care. The guide draws on her own negative and positive experiences of going through the system, we have published an extract below… Continue reading “A Foster Carers Guide – an extract” »
After months of consultations, surveys and working groups Drive Forward’s policy ambassadors are proud to present their manifesto of a shared vision for a better care system. The document is uncompromisingly ambitious and reflective of the priorities, aims and ethos of the Policy Forum. Please get in contact if you are a care experienced person who wants to take part in our policy forum, or if you are someone who is also passionate about changing the care system and want to know how you can help. Continue reading “Our shared vision” »
Young woman leaving the care system in the UK face particular challenges related to both, their background in care as well as their gender. Providing them with access to long-term support and guidance means giving them a real chance to thrive and fulfil their full potential. Continue reading “THIS IS ME: From care to independence as a woman in the UK” »
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“If you have never been through the care system, and survived, you will never understand what it is like. In our first meeting with Nadhim Zahawi, Minister for Children and Families, we invited him into our lives, to listen, to learn and hear about our individual and collective experiences of care.”
Continue reading “Ambassadors meet with Children’s Minister Nadhim Zahawi” »
I really wanted to write something because I haven’t written in a while and well…I was looking over the events for this month…but there are no events in July. There’s the 4th of July but that’s for America’s Independence from the UK and I didn’t know if that was something that we could talk about. You know…because we’re from the UK and what with Brexit and everything it might be a little too heavy of a topic! Continue reading “Independence, how much is too much?” »
After returning from a trip to Scotland last month the Drive Forward Policy Forum was left with an even stronger conviction that the UK’s care system is broken. Hosted by the pioneering care leavers’ advocacy organisation Who Cares? Scotland, our Ambassadors listened to the stories of other care experienced people, and in return shared their own. Continue reading “Two Countries, One Broken Care System” »
We’re excited to announce that London’s Saatchi Gallery is hosting THIS IS ME in their Education Gallery between 28 May and 5 June.
Continue reading “THIS IS ME at the Saatchi Gallery!” »
Our partners at the Berkeley Group are part of a powerful business coalition that has just launched a guide aiming to help major employers bring talented, marginalised young people into full-time work. Continue reading “The Employers Guide – talented people at work” »
Under the motto of “Impact through Creativity”, our referral partners challenged traditional thinking and opened themselves up for a more creative approach to better engage with and support care experienced youth. Continue reading “Impact Through Creativity” »
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