After a fab 3+ years with @Become1992, sad to say that this week will be my last week!

I've learned absolutely loads in my time here and owe a huge amount of gratitude to everyone who's shared their knowledge, time and support.💜
Very excited to be starting a new external affairs role with the brilliant @kinshipcharity on Monday next week.

Particularly glad to be staying in the children and families policy space and continue campaigning alongside many familiar faces when I'm there!
Will always have an enormous amount of appreciation and respect particularly for all of the care-experienced young people and young adults who have so kindly shared their time and expertise with me. You and everything you've shared will not be forgotten.
As I'm leaving, there's now an exciting refocussed job opportunity to lead @Become1992's policy and public affairs work - please share with your networks and get in touch if an informal chat would be helpful.

becomecharity.org.uk/about-us/jobs-…
Hoping to keep writing/tweeting about all sorts of children's social care, education, and 'participation' issues if I can (but I also can't promise this account won't descend into West Wing GIFs and ultimate frisbee gossip).

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More from @samtrner

12 Jan
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Great to speak with @FelicityHannah earlier on @BBCRadio4 @Moneybox (alongside the fab @CWilson200 and others) about financial support for young adults leaving care.

You can listen back here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Inevitably there's never enough time to cover everything on a topic in under 30 minutes, so a few important points I may or may not have had the time to cover on the air below...
Young people describe leaving care to us @Become1992 as the 'care cliff'.

Almost overnight, they experience an abrupt shift from professional control over everyday decisions to suddenly being responsible for managing your own finances and everything else in early adulthood.
Read 18 tweets
18 Nov 21
Thread time again. 🧵

New annual DfE stats are out on children in care and care leavers today from the SSDA903 collection. I haven’t been on Twitter much recently, but folks seemed to find this helpful last year so…

…e-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistic…
The big message: there was a pandemic and turns out it had a significant impact on national trends in children’s social care.

Almost everything for the year ending 31 March 2021 needs a ‘Covid lens’ so we don’t draw too many year-on-year conclusions which won’t be maintained.
Overall, the numbers of children in care have grown again, albeit slightly less than in recent years.

There are now 80,850 children in care in England – an all-time high – and continuing a pattern of year-on-year growth since 2008.
Read 23 tweets
10 Dec 20
Thread time. 🧵

1/ New annual DfE stats are out on children in care and care leavers today from the SSDA903 collection.

…e-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistic…

You'll notice the new EES dashboard which makes exploring them at a glance much easier!

I wanted to share a few key things...
2/ As expected, there's been an increase in the number of children in care, up by 2% from 2019 to 80,080.

That's a little lower than the estimate (81,700) made in @ADCStweets's recent interim report: adcs.org.uk/safeguarding/a… Image
3/ Rate of growth has slowed a little - previous year-on-year increases were 4%, 4% and 3%.

But that's still continuing a consistent increase in numbers in a system at crisis point.

Since 2009, the number of children in care has increased by 31%. Image
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