Participation
Leading Our Lives
Young people with experience of care leading an England-wide participation project.
The Fostering Network has received Big Lottery funding to run a new Project called Leading Our Lives. The project will enable fostered children, care leavers and sons and daughters of foster carers to have a genuine voice in their own future and in services affecting them.
Over three years we will be:
- setting up participation groups for young people across England
- establishing a database to show how young people are already involved and what works well
- support organisations by helping them to get young people involved more
- producing accessible information for young people
- giving young people training opportunities eg. fostering panel training, train the trainers, media and consultation training
- recruiting a team of sessional workers with experience of care
- enabling 90 young people to be part of regional forums.
Survey of participation services for fostered children, young people and care leavers
We want to find out about the level of participation by young people in fostering services and leaving care services.
Please take a moment to complete our short questionnaire.
Please send completed questionnaires by email to piriya.jeganathan@fostering.net or by post to Leading Our Lives Survey, 87 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8HA.
If you would like to get involved or find out more information about our project please email Judy Walsh at judy.walsh@fostering.net or phone 020 7620 6412.