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...>
4. I valued their views because that 1st hand knowledge helped us to do what really worked. My engagement with the @careexpconf conference convinced me that there's a huge well of wisdom & experience which must be drawn upon to shape how children in care are supported in future">
5. Alison concluded that - "The @careexpconf conference also proved that you only have to ask people to help for them to step forward in legions. It’s essential that we find a way to make this happen for us to stand a chance of making things work better."
6. We'll try to bring you the thoughts of other members of the #OCOS team in coming days as we finalise our arrangements to reach the care experienced community. In the meantime, please be like Alison & support "Our Care Our Say" in our bid to get care experienced people heard.
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’Reconsidering the Care-Crime Connection in a Climate of Crisis’ published in Child & Family Law in June 2020. Interesting read:
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 ...
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">
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>