For children’s residential care

Corporate Parenting: A Whole-Council Approach

We all want to be a good ‘corporate parent’ and ensure children feel part of a family. This keynote explores how local authorities and all their services can play a role in being a meaningful support for children in care.

How to be an Advocate: For Councillors and Lead Members

Lead members and councillors have a key role in advocating for the children they represent. This keynote helps them understand the lived experiences of children in care and how to be an advocate for them.

Outstanding Participation: How to Meaningfully Engage with Young People

Whether through hosting meaningful events, setting up forums, or co-designing services, every local authority wants to engage with young people. This keynote looks at how to meaningfully engage with young people, devolve appropriate power and have an outstanding participation strategy.

Living a Careless Life: The Lived Experiences of Care

This keynote explores the lived experiences of care, looking at what it’s like in school, how recording and language can cause stigma, and what we can do to build meaningful relationships with children and their families.

‘Leading’ Care: The Lived Experience of Leaving Care

Young people don’t leave care – care leaves them and they are left to lead their own lives. This keynote helps you understand the lived experiences of young people leaving care and what you can do to support them.

Lived Experience Leadership: Engaging Lived Experience into Service Delivery

We all want to engage with lived experience so that we can develop services with the views of those who have experienced them. This keynote explores lived experience leadership and how professional leaders can work alongside those with lived experience effectively.