Children and their families created a collage to visually demonstrate the children and young people living in Private Fostering arrangements in Leeds that we are not aware off. This took place during #ChildFriendlyLeeds ‘Big Birthday Bonanza’. During the 5th Birthday celebrations whereby they had many family friendly events and activities throughout the city centre on…
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When a child or young person, who is under 16 (or under 18 if they have a disability) is being looked after by someone who is not a close relative, for 28 days or more, it is called ‘private fostering. It could be a situation like Heather, below, was facing, or even a temporary arrangement,…
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Simon Davis, Independent Visitor to a young teenager in care What does an average working day look like for you? An average working day for me is getting up about 7 o’clock after putting my alarm on snooze 3 or 4 times since 6:30. I usually don’t want to get out of bed but if…
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A group of volunteers from across Leeds are working together to provide a fantastic, free Christmas Day dinner for care leavers in the city. Many young people who are care leavers, spend Christmas Day by themselves away from family. Often they have no definite place to spend Christmas Day, where they know they will be…
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Leeds foster carers have been recognised and awarded for the selfless work they do looking after the city’s most vulnerable children, at a special awards ceremony organised by Leeds City Council. In order to recognise those carers who go the extra mile, Leeds City Council organised the Child Friendly Leeds Foster Carer Awards for people…
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embed code In the first Child Rights Partners blog written by a young person, we’ve shared a short film about Sam. Sam is a 21 year old from Leeds who grew up in care. Sam got involved in this film project through his Care Leavers’ social group because he wanted to raise awareness of the…
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As part of National Adoption Week we’re serialising one adopters story through the adoption process. Here it’s time for panel… Part four I almost forgot Panel, that’s because it was great. I was terrified before we went in, shaking, feeling sick, the works. Don’t worry, you are in a room of positive people who really…
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As part of National Adoption Week we’re serialising one adoptive families journey through the process, today it’s ‘stage two…’ Part three ‘Stage Two’ was a much anticipated part of the adoption process and although we had some reservations we were open minded and ready for the probing and interrogation we had been warned about. One…
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As part of National Adoption Week we’re serialising one adoptive families journey through the adoption process. Here Helen talks about the first home visit. Part two Bonzo likes to bark. Bonzo likes to bark loudly. He particular likes to bark when people come to the door. Today was not a day for Bonzo to display…
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Next week is National Adoption week, so over the coming days we’ll be serialising one adoptive families journey through the process. Additionally we’ll be having a Q&A session on Twitter on 20 and 22 October using #adopt4leeds from @child_leeds and we have an event you can attend to find out more at Trinity Centre in…
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Children in care from across Leeds have been treated like stars for the night at a prom style awards ceremony. The STARS awards for Looked After Children have been organised by Leeds City Council to celebrate and recognise the many achievements of children and young people in care. In order to make sure all children…
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As part of our ambition to make Leeds a child friendly city we work with a range of businesses and organisations to provide support to our foster carers. The organisations often provide our foster carers with free or discounted tickets to events, so they can get out and about with the young people they look…
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