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National Care Leavers’ Month 2026: time to plan the theme!!!
National Care Leavers’ Month (NCLM) is back again for November 2026! But before we get...
Stay Connected: Sign up for ‘United for Change for Care Leavers’ updates
‘United for Change for Care Leavers’ is coming to town on 17th November 2026! Co...
National Apprenticeship Week 2026: Revisiting Care X’s 5 Key Messages
National Apprenticeship Week: 9-15th February 2026 – This week marks a week-long cele...
Coming Up: National Apprenticeship Week 2026
National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) marks a week-long celebration that brings together busine...
YPBMF Celebration Event 2025: the round-up
Along with the first-ever National Care Leavers’ Month, November 2025 saw our annual Y...
Amplifying Care-Experienced Voices – Reflections from the Care X panel at the BBC during NCLM
Aisha, one of our YPBMF Legends and care-experienced sessional workers, participated in a Ca...
NLCBF Personal Advisor Awards 2025: And the winners are…
On Thursday 13th November 2025, we hosted our annual Personal Advisor (PA) Awards during the...
Rising as Me: Celebrating YPBMF Champions and Legends this National Care Leavers’ Month
This National Care Leavers Month, we celebrate the amazing YPBMF Champions & Legends —...
Rising As Me: Reflections on National Care Leavers’ Month
To mark National Care Leavers’ Month (NCLM), we sat down with Victoria Odude, our YPBMF an...
Online Events: Bridging the Gap – Supporting Care-Experienced Young People in Contact with the Justice System
The National Leaving Care Benchmarking Forum are hosting three online sessions on the topic ...
National Care Leavers Month – Brand assets plus programme of events
Please note: This article has been updated to reflect a published programme of events for Na...
NLCBF Annual Report 2024-25 – now available
We’re really proud to share our annual report for 2024-25 which demonstrates the impac...
We have a new National Care Leavers Month logo!
It’s official – we have a new National Care Leavers Month (NCLM) logo! Just in case you ...
Care Experienced People Participation Summit – join us on Tuesday 23rd September 2025
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the National Leaving Care Benchmarking Forum (NLCBF) are wor...
YPBMF looks back at the Managers Event, July 2025
YPBMF and NLCBF events always act as powerful platforms for our Champions and Legends to com...
Design our New National Care Leavers Month logo!
As you’ll know National Care Leavers Week is no more – it is now National Care Leavers M...
YPBMF Blog: People, Place and Purpose
The YPBMF and NLCBF events earlier in the year provided a powerful platform for our Champion...
In Their Own Words: Dive into Our Executive Summary
We’re incredibly proud to share the Executive Summary of our latest “In Their O...
NLCBF Project Evaluation Opportunity
Catch22’s National Leaving Care Benchmarking Forum (NLCBF) are seeking proposals for a pro...
In Their Own Words: We Said, You Did – Booking Now Open!
We’re excited to announce that YPBMF’s “In Their Own Words” Event is ret...
Big News: National Care Leavers Week is now a Whole Month!
We’re thrilled to announce a significant and exciting change! From now on, what was tr...
NLCBF Takes Care Leaver Voices to Parliament
NLCBF hosted its first parliamentary event this week, giving MPs and members of the House of...
YPBMF Residential: Where Voices Led the Way
We’re still buzzing from the energy and inspiration of the recent YPBMF Residential! I...
Digital Inclusion Action Plan: NLCBF Response
Our Key Asks for care experienced young people aged 18-25: A national offer of free WiFi –...
National Care Leavers Week/Month 2025 Consultation
National Care Leavers Week (NCLW) is an annual event where care-experienced individuals, Loc...
YPBMF Photo Competition for Care Experienced Young People
Hey everyone! We’ve got an awesome opportunity for care experienced young people and w...
We’re Recruiting: Digital Marketing & Events Officer (Maternity Cover)
NLCBF is looking for a dynamic and creative Digital Marketing & Events Officer to cover ...
Care X National Apprenticeship Week next week!
National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) 2025: 10TH – 16TH FEBRUARY Theme: Skills for L...
NLCBF & YPBMF Key Asks: Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill
NLCBF welcomes the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill and its measures to improve the s...
Child Poverty Strategy: Care Experienced Parents & Young People
NLCBF has submitted two briefings to the government’s Tackling Child Poverty Strategy ...
My First NLCBF Managers Event: A Whirlwind of Learning and Connection
National Care Leavers Benchmarking Forum Managers event 4th-6th December 2024. On the 4th of...
All of Us, We are One: YPBMF Care Leavers Celebration Event!
I’m Dyllan, one of the YPBMF Legends, and I’m going to be recanting my amazing experienc...
Winter Support for Care Experienced Individuals
This winter period is going to be a cold one. Jade, our Participation Officer has created a ...
We’re Recruiting: Part Time NLCBF Practice Lead
With Darren, our current Practice Lead dropping down to 2 days/week, we’re recruiting ...
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...
NCLW 2024: Everything You Need To Know!
Leaving care organizations and care experienced individuals across the country come together...
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 ...
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 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...
We’re Recruiting: Participation Officer
We’re really excited to announce NLCBF are recruiting for a Participation Officer – a ne...
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...
Improving Employability Event Video and Audio Resources
You can now watch and listen to the sessions from the “Improving Employability for Peo...
Care Experienced Apprentices Enjoy Coronation Concert
In May this year, before the In Their Own Words Event, the Care Experienced Apprentice Netwo...
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...
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...
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...
Cost of Living Report: August 2022
NLCBF have published a report about the impact that the cost of living is already having on ...
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...