Resources
Celebrating Outstanding Personal Advisors: PA of the Year Awards 2024
The Personal Advisor Celebration Awards, held as part of our annual PA Celebration Event, on...
In Their Own Words 2024 – Support After 21 & 25 Years of Age
In June 2024, over 200 care experienced individuals from around the UK took part in our “I...
In Their Own Words 2024 – Safe and Affordable Homes
In June 2024, over 200 care experienced individuals from around the UK took part in our “I...
In Their Own Words 2024 – Communities of Support
In June 2024, over 200 care experienced individuals from around the UK took part in our “I...
In Their Own Words 2024 – Mental Health and Health
In June 2024, over 200 care experienced individuals from around the UK took part in our “I...
In Their Own Words 2024 – Cost of Living Report
In June 2024, over 200 care experienced individuals from around the UK took part in our “I...
National Care Leavers Week Blog: The ‘Radiator Key’ Challenge
Are you a professional working with care experienced young people? Are you someone with th...
YPBMF Host mental health podcast for Research In Practice
Victoria, the YPBMF Steering Group Rep hosted a podcast with Nicole and Jasmine from the Dr...
NCLW 2024: Everything You Need To Know!
Leaving care organizations and care experienced individuals across the country come together...
We’re looking for a website developer…
We’re looking for expressions of interest in maintaining and developing our websites. ...
Free Lunchtime Webinar Series on Relational Practice
We’re excited to share that Esmée Fairbairn are introducing an upcoming free lunchtime we...
We’re Recruiting: Part Time NLCBF Practice Lead
With Darren, our current Practice Lead dropping down to 2 days/week, we’re recruiting ...
In Their Own Words 2024 – Reports Published
In June 2024, over 200 care experienced individuals from around the UK took part in our “I...
National Care Leavers Week – #NCLW Theme: “All of Us, We are One”
The Alliance for Looked After Children & Care Leavers and care experienced individuals f...
Blog: In Their Own Words Takeover
Hi I am Dyllan one of the YPBMF champions for 2023/24 and I’m going to be telling you ...
In Their Own Words 2024: Support after 21 & 25 Video
As part of In Their Own Words 2024, Nathan and Reece share the findings from our survey with...
In Their Own Words 2024: Health & Mental Health Video
As part of In Their Own Words 2024, Kim and Dyllan share the findings from our survey with o...
Safe & Affordable Homes: In Their Own Words Video
As part of In Their Own Words 2024, Harley and Esla share the findings from our survey with ...
In Their Own Words 2024: Creating Communities of Support Video
As part of In Their Own Words 2024, Harley and Dyllan share the findings from our survey wit...
In Their Own Words 2024: Cost of Living Video
As part of In Their Own Words 2024, Victoria and Mark share the findings from our survey wit...
NLCBF’s 2023-24 Annual Report…
We’re really proud to share our Annual Report for 2023-24 which demonstrates the impac...
In Their Own Words Survey: Take Part Now!
YPBMF have been co-designing a survey for care experience individuals across the country. ...
Our Parliamentary Adventure
Blog by Toni McClelland, NLCBF Digital Marketing and Events Officer In February 2024, our YP...
In Conversation: Mapping the new Ofsted Judgement for Care Leavers
The National Leaving Care Benchmarking Forum (NLCBF) recently commissioned Dr Claire Baker t...
In Their Own Words Event: Booking Now Open
YPBMF’s In Their Own Words Event is back for a third year. Hosted by care experienced yo...
YPBMF meet Ministers
Victoria Odude, YPBMF Steering Group Rep and Rylee, one of our YPBMF Champions met with Davi...
Mental Health: Key to all of our ambitions for care experienced young people – A Call for a Dedicated Strategy
Blog by Hannah McCowen for the Alliance for Children in Care and Care Leavers – a co...
Personal Advisor Celebration Awards 2023!
Our practitioners event is just around the corner and we wanted to take a moment to look bac...
We’re Recruiting: Participation Officer
We’re really excited to announce NLCBF are recruiting for a Participation Officer – a ne...
Care Experienced – Should it be a Protected Characteristic?
What do you think about protected characteristic for people with care experience? Join Catch...
Blog: The Care X Apprentice Network talk about Employability
‘Blog by Victoria Odude, YPBMF Steering Group Rep – who hosted the ‘Improving Employab...
Blog: Aisha’s Visit to No.10
‘Aisha, YPBMF Champion was invited to 10 Downing Street during National Care Leavers Weeks...
Royal Visit: YPBMF ‘Celebrating Us’ Event
On Wednesday 8th November, YPBMF held its annual Care Leaver Celebration Event in Birmingh...
Top 10 Asks for the Local Offer
What do young people say makes a great local offer? What do leaving care practitioners and...
Blog: It’s the relationships, stupid!
In October, over 260 people, including 71 local authorities, attended a summit on improving ...
Improving Employability Event Video and Audio Resources
You can now watch and listen to the sessions from the “Improving Employability for Peo...
Blog: Reboot West – Value Based Employability Support
Last week we presented at the ‘Improving Employability for Young People with Care Experien...
National Care Leavers Week – Events, Resources and Logos.
The Alliance for Looked After Children & Care Leavers and care experienced young people ...
Care Experienced Apprentices Enjoy Coronation Concert
In May this year, before the In Their Own Words Event, the Care Experienced Apprentice Netwo...
UASC Triangles: In Their Own Words
Alnour joined our In Their Own Words event and spoke about how he and other care experienced...
Care Leaver Hubs: In Their Own Words
Rylee, a YPBMF Champion took part in creating one of the country’s first Care Leaver Hubs,...
The Cost of Living: In Their Own Words
Victoria, our YPBMF steering group representative, took the stage to talk about the NLCBF S...
Care Experienced as a Protected Characteristic: In Their Own Words
Hear from Leigh, a YPBMF Champion, who took to the stage and spoke about the importance of c...
Free Transport: In Their Own Words
Alongside the Barnardo’s Transport for Freedom campaign, Lawrence joined our event to tal...
We’re Recruiting: NLCBF Business & Events Administrator
Do you have fantastic administration skills and want to make a difference to care experience...
Blog: In Their Own Words
In their own words: Care Experienced Young People ask senior policy and decision makers for ...
Children’s Commissioner Blog
We are so excited to be mentioned in the latest children’s commissioner blog after the...
In Their Own Words Event – We’re back for a 2nd year!
We are back with ‘In Their Own Words: Experiences & Insights from Care Experienced You...
NLCBF’s 22-23 Annual Report Published
We’ve just published our 2022-23 Annual Report, a short document that summarises the w...
Book Now: Improving Employability for Young People with Care Experience
Improving Employability for Young People with Care Experience Tuesday 3rd October, 2-4:30pm ...
In Their Own Words Event – Booking Open
YPBMFs ‘In Their Own Words: Experiences & Insights from Care Experienced Young People...
YPBMF attend the Cross Ministerial Board
Victoria Odude and Liss Philips were invited to represent YPBMF & Warwickshire at the cr...
A Starting Guide for Supporting LGBTQ+ Young People in Care
The LGBTQ+ Youth in Care Network released a starting guide for supporting LGBTQ+ young peopl...
Government’s response to the care review: NLCBF Initial Response
We welcome the publishing of the government’s response to the Care Review, ‘Stable Homes...
National Apprenticeship Week: Key messages coming out of Care X Apprentice Network
6-11th February is National Apprenticeship Week. NLCBF’s Care X Apprentice Network have be...
NLCBF Releases new Cost of Living Report ‘Survival Is Not Easy’
NLCBF’s new Cost of Living report Survival Is Not Easy paints a stark picture of the crisi...
Our Story
Coming soon to this page: The Story of NLCBF…...
Victoria talks criminalisation of children & young people in care
Victoria Odude, our YPBMF Steering Group Rep has taken part in Catch22’s podcast on th...
PA of the Year and PA Team of the Year Awards
NLCBF held the PA of the Year awards as part of the PA Celebration Event. The event takes ...
Berlin through the eyes of YPBMF
Travel through Berlin with Ralph and Hannah in a matter of moments. This is just a snippet o...
Berlin Blog
Hannah McCowen, NLCBF Manager, and Ralph Rushworth, Senior Care Experienced Sessional Worker...
Transitional Safeguarding Blog
Read all about the experiences of young people in the, Bridging the gap with Transitional Sa...
NLCBF Priorities for Care Review Implementation Plan
NLCBF have written today to the Education Minister and Children’s Minister to outline ...
Cost of Living Report: August 2022
NLCBF have published a report about the impact that the cost of living is already having on ...
London Regional Forum: Relaunch
NLCBF are relaunching the Regional Forum for Leaving Care Managers in London, following disc...
Key Messages: Cost of Living
Jodie Kudzewicz shared these key messages about the Cost of Living Crisis at our ‘In t...
Key Messages: Criminalisation of Care Leavers
Watch Nathan Parker’s powerful speech about the criminalisation of care leavers –...
Blog: Setting the agenda
A Blog from Nat about our ‘In Their Own Words’ event.Here’s a blog from ...
YPBMF Co-Host event for Ofsted
Ralph, Joe, Luwam and Vicky, YPBMF Sessional workers co-hosted an event for Ofsted with othe...
Improving employability: Learning from NLCBF’s Peer Learning Programme
Janet Grauberg, Organisational Learning Consultant and Catch22 Associate, reflects on a sess...