Improving the Life Chances of Children in Care

Capita’s 6th National Improving the Life Chances of Children in Care Conference addresses the key challenges faced by organisations and individuals in supporting young people in care and during the transition to adulthood.

By bringing together a range of expert speakers to highlight good practice and initiatives with proven records of success, this conference will provide you with practical ideas you can tailor to your own work to provide the best possible support for children and young people in care.

With the Children and Young Persons Bill strengthening the legislative framework underpinning the care system, the Government’s commitment to delivering the Care Matters: Time for Change agenda is clear. However, ensuring that the outcomes for children and young people in care are delivered requires that local authorities and key stakeholders work in partnership and share best practice to prioritise the needs of young people.

This conference will address current key issues, including:

• Progress made following the social pedagogy pilots
• Health and wellbeing of looked after children
• Maximising educational attainment
• Managing the transition out of care
• Successful corporate parenting strategies
• Social work practice pilots

Attend this event to benefit from practical guidance and to help improve results for children and young people in care.

• Hear the latest on the implementation of the Care Matters agenda
• Learn how you can measure positive outcomes for children and young people in care and the progress made since the social pedagogy pilots
• Take away good practice ideas on integrated health and wellbeing support from a successful partnership between health and social care providers
• Listen to a series of case studies about meeting the post-care needs of young care leavers
• Consider how you can improve existing corporate parenting strategies to deliver a truly co-ordinated approach
• Hear from one of the new Social Work Practice Pilots about how they will be delivering targeted improvements in social care
• Find out how the role of the designated teacher can be best utilised to help raise educational attainment for children in care