About this theme
This theme covers topics relating to improving the lives and outcomes of children and young people with experience of care. It is one of our current programmes for Fellowships, launched in 2023. It has been developed in partnership with the Hadley Trust, Coram Group and in consultation with our Children in Care working group. Fellows’ stories
Fellows' updates May 2024 Fellows' update: Sophia Alexandra Hall
Sophia Alexandra Hall (CF 2023) spoke at #MediaStrong, a journalism conference hosted at City University, in front of 200 newsroom leaders, where she discussed her Churchill Fellowship research, focused on developing toolkits for journalists working with care-experienced individuals.
By Sophia Alexandra Hall, 2024
Report No more standing in the shadows – treating the wounds of historic forced adoption
By Jeannot Farmer, 2023
Report Preventing self-harm and suicide in children from foster, kinship or residential care
By Rhiannon Evans, 2023
Blogs & conversations Helping children in care to process grief and loss
As a social worker working with children moving onto adoption and before that with children in foster care, I've long wondered how children can be supported to process the feelings of grief and loss of separation.
28 March 2024
Report The adultification of black girls in state care: perspectives
By Sylvia Ikomi, 2023
