by Yvonne Anderson | Jun 22, 2021 | data, Foster care, Implementing Mind Of My Own, Improving practice
Technology goes beyond mere tool making; it is a process of creating ever more powerful technology using the tools from the previous round of innovation. Ray Kurzweil We know that the digitisation of public services is inevitable, and we hold organisations that...
by Yvonne Anderson | Feb 8, 2021 | Foster care, Improving practice, residential care
Unplanned endings Children need stable placement, yet during 2018-2019, around 5,800 children and young people in placement experienced unplanned endings and almost a third of those were moved within 24 hours. This represents an increase of 6 percent from the previous...
by Yvonne Anderson | Dec 2, 2020 | Covid-19 coronavirus, Express, Foster care
New and creative ways to interact During Covid, our community has found new and creative ways to interact with the children and young people for whom they offer care and support. Caroline Hallett from By the Bridge kindly shared this great story with us about how they...
by Yvonne Anderson | Mar 12, 2020 | Foster care
Guest blog 6 minute read We are lucky to work with some fantastic organisations and recently started working with By the Bridge fostering, who went live on the 27January this year. They have had a fantastic first month, and we asked Caroline Hallett, Participation and...
by Natalie Ward | Feb 11, 2020 | Foster care, Lived experience, Mind Of My Own community
Good relationships are a universal therapeutic good. (i) We were inspired by the exhibition Who Cares: Stories of Looking After Children in Southwark looking at the highly skilled and often invisible work of foster carers, including their beautiful portraits. This...
