The Lundy model of participation offers a robust framework for understanding how children’s rights, particularly the right to be heard, can be realised effectively.

My Best Life helps professionals work smarter; freeing them up to spend more precious time with children and families.

Every year, during the last week of June, the world comes together to celebrate World Wellbeing Week. This global event serves as a reminder of the importance of wellbeing in every aspect of our lives—physical, mental, emotional, and social. Originating in Jersey, Channel Islands, this initiative has gained international traction, encouraging individuals, communities, and organisations to prioritise their health and happiness.

Mind Of My Own has developed ‘SHOUT about your Care Experience’, a ground-breaking survey tool designed to capture the experiences of care-experienced young individuals as they transition out of care provision.

Mind Of My Own promotes early intervention. By helping children to speak up, Mind Of My Own promotes early intervention like this: The young person is enabled to share risk and resilience factors in their lives with someone they trust and have confidence in. This alerts the service to concerns, including potential abuse, much sooner so that practitioners can put early supports in place that promote and sustain children remaining safely within their families. Unnecessary placements can be averted and placement breakdowns avoided.

It used to be difficult to persuade decision-makers to invest in early intervention owing to a lack of evidence for its effectiveness. Frustratingly, most people knew intuitively that intervening in problems early, thereby preventing crises and emergencies, had to lead to better outcomes all round.