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Sep 15, 2020 3 tweets 2 min read Read on X
1. "Our Care Our Say" @OurCareOurSay2 (#ocos) ia a partnership between care experienced people & friends from @CareLeavers @NIROMP2 & @Careexpconf that will provide a virtual opportunity for care experienced people across England to express their expectations & thoughts >
2. < about the forthcoming English care system review. We plan to offer an opportunity for about 100 care experienced people in all our diversity to come together via social media to discuss & share their views about the care system and how they want it to be reformed >
We hope to bring together as widely diverse a group as possible, particularly those who are not normally consulted or engaged by professionals making decisions. Our fledgling team is working on the details and will use this account to share developments over the next few weeks.

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Sep 26, 2020
’Reconsidering the Care-Crime Connection in a Climate of Crisis’ published in Child & Family Law in June 2020. Interesting read: Image
Dr Fitzpatrick suggests ‘a more positive overall narrative’ would feed into a more hopeful practice and raise aspirations...The danger is we simply reproduce some of the negative risk and perceptions of riskiness so often associated with this with ‘care experience ...
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Sep 24, 2020
1. "Our Care Our Say" is a mix of care experienced & non care experienced friends joined together by a shared belief that any care review must have the views of the care experienced community of all ages & in all its glorious diversity at the centre."Nothing about us without us"
2. One of our team is Ian Dickson. He's care experienced retired s/wkr, residential service manager, Ofsted inspector & most recently Chair of the Conference for Care Experienced People core team. (@CareExpConf). Now retired from all, but a member of the #OCOS team”.>
3 Ian says: “I believe in #OCOS because it reflects my ideals & beliefs that no policy decisions can be made about how care & aftercare are planned & delivered without full transparent consultation & engagement with the care experienced people of all ages in all our diversity">
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Sep 23, 2020
1. "Our Care Our Say" is a mix of care experienced & non care experienced friends joined together by a shared belief that any care review must have the views of the care experienced community of all ages & in all its glorious diversity at the centre. "Nothing about us without us"
2. One of our team is Sharon Martin @SharonLMartin1 Sharon is Chair of the National IRO Managers Partnership (NIROMP) @NIROMP2. We asked Sharon to share how the project started & why she supports the #OCOS aims to get care experienced people heard at the forthcoming Care Review.>
3. Here is what Sharon had to say: “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.(Shirley Chisholm)
Chisholm was an outspoken advocate for women & minorities & a true revolutionary. She fought for change & created that change through her revolutionary acts>
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Sep 22, 2020
1. The "Our Care Our Say" team is a mix of care experienced & non care experience friends, joined together by a shared belief that any care review must have the views of the care experienced community of all ages & in all its diversity at the centre."Nothing about us without us">
2. One of our team is Alison O'Sullivan @aosullivan01, retired social worker & distinguished past president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services. Alison shared why she supports the #OCOS aims to get care experienced people heard at the forthcoming Care Review>
3. Alison said -
"I believe it’s vitally important that the views of care experience people of all ages shape the care review from the outset. Over many years as a social worker and leading local authority services I valued the perspectives of people with lived experience...>
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