Blogs from Fellows and the team
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Blog: Kickstarting digital careers for the BAME community
Careers in digital and technology can be a minefield to navigate, especially if you come from a background where you have not been exposed to them. Having run a...
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Blog: Critical illness survivorship – challenges ahead
For many patients, the experience of being admitted to intensive care units is unexpected and traumatic. Patients and relatives are usually unable to prepare for the...
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Blog: Foster care for adolescents with complex needs
Today is Care Day 2021, a celebration of care-experienced children and young people. I have volunteered as the Independent Visitor for a young woman in care for the past...
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Blog: Advancing apprenticeships for young people
This week is National Apprenticeship Week, so it feels timely to revisit the learnings from my 2011 Fellowship, which explored ways to engage young people and employers...
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Blog: The importance of outdoor activities for teenagers
During the February half-term holidays last year, I welcomed 45 teenagers to the National Air Cadet Adventure Training Centre in North Wales. Little did I know that...
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Blog: Mentoring young people during the pandemic
How can we build and maintain mentoring support for children and young people when face-to-face contact has been restricted for almost a year? This wasn’t one of the...
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Blog: Street gang intervention – back to basics
Growing up on a socio-economically deprived council estate in London’s east end as a teenager back in the 1980s, I was so hell bent on getting out myself that I would...
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Blog: Black lives have always mattered – resources for resilience
In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by law enforcement agencies employed to protect lives – and countless other deaths both before and after that – we all...
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Blog: A home-schooling model for lockdown
What does a working parent do when their child is sent home because of Covid-19? And what if that parent’s employer expects them to meet the usual deadlines and targets ...
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Blog: Contributing to the national effort against Covid-19
30 Dec 2020As 2020 draws to a close, our Chairman Jeremy Soames outlines his personal highlights from the year.