Leeds City Council’s ‘Independent Visitor’ scheme offers young people in care an older role model. Volunteers offer few hours of their time each month, taking part in activities such as football, go-karting, or a trip to the cinema. They get to see a young person develop, grow in confidence and have fun, away from the…
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This week Leeds City Council’s Independent Visitor scheme launches a new campaign, asking you #WhoWasYourRoleModel when you were growing-up. Leeds Rhinos players Jamie-Jones Buchanan and Zak Hardaker have been getting involved in some fantastic videos, and you can too on Twitter by letting us know who your role models are and using the hashtag. In…
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I first became aware of the Independent Visitor (IV) scheme in January of 2012. At this point in my life, I’d admit that I had lost direction. Having graduated from Uni a year previously, I was living in Leeds, working in a job which was both completely unrelated to what I actually wanted to do for a…
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It started with the director of children’s services for Leeds city council saying in a meeting that only 10% of looked after children had an independent visitor. I had no idea what one of those was! So one day I Googled it and discovered that there was a Leeds City Council scheme. An…
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