{"id":5,"date":"2011-07-08T11:02:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T11:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/leavingcare\/?p=5"},"modified":"2011-07-25T15:44:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T15:44:37","slug":"welcome-to-the-re-designing-support-for-care-leavers-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/leavingcare\/2011\/07\/08\/welcome-to-the-re-designing-support-for-care-leavers-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the re-designing support for care leavers project"},"content":{"rendered":"
Focus of the project<\/strong> A young person from the Debate Project commented on her feelings about leaving care:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This section of the blog has been created to follow one of the projects being undertaken by the Innovation and Improvement Programme at IRISS, which is entitled ‘Re-designing Support for Care Leavers’. gfdg Why run this project? As a result of research that IRISS conducted on the state of innovation and improvement in Scottish social … Continue reading Welcome to the re-designing support for care leavers project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[2850],"tags":[2844,2846,2848,100,2842,2845,2857,2847],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/leavingcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/leavingcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/leavingcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/leavingcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/leavingcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/leavingcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/leavingcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/leavingcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/leavingcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis re-design project is focusing upon the leaving care transition for young people in Scotland. It is well documented that young people leaving care face difficult and accelerated challenges in comparison to their peers. At a recent young people\u2019s conference, hosted by the Debate Project<\/a>, care leavers from across Scotland came together to share their views and opinions on leaving care. At this event, young people said that the thing they needed most, and didn\u2019t receive when leaving care, was emotional support. Young people said that when they left care they felt isolated, depressed and lonely (Life After Care, 2009).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nSo in Partnership with the Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum<\/a>, The Debate Project<\/a>, Argyll and Bute Council<\/a>, practitioners, care leavers and service designers from Snook<\/a>, we are working using co-productive methods to explore and develop ideas that respond to the kind of emotional and social support a young person is looking for as they leave care. We will test these ideas in practice and evaluate both the process people involved work through, and the application of each of the ideas.<\/div>\n
\nThe project will run from the 7th July 2011 until October and will be showcased at the IRISS Forum on December 6th as well as online. We are really keen to make sure the learning and ideas from this project can be shared across social services and beyond, so please read and comment on the blog and share it will people who may be interested.<\/div>\n