Podcast discussion covering what self-harm is and why it can be hard to define, why looked-after children and young people are at greater risk of self-harm and mental health problems than those in the general population, and how professionals can work with young people who are self-harming.
The challenges of being and coming into care during adolescence, the transition to adulthood for young people and key tools and approaches social workers can use to support young people in and leaving care.
This piece will explore different lived experiences of the care system through telling the stories of three individuals: Daniel, Reece and Cassie. You’ll hear the voices and views of young people about all aspects of the system – from going into care to leaving it – and their experiences with social workers, both positive and negative.
Children and young people's views on contact arrangements, the emotional issues which contact (or lack of) can contribute to, and
the longer-term impact of contact in earlier life.
Young people’s views and experiences around what it was like to be a teenager in care, issues of stigma, the importance of hobbies or interests and making and sustaining positive friendships and relationships.
Young people’s experiences around going into care and their feelings on their first nights in care, the provision of information and introduction of new people, and how social workers can best support children at a particularly turbulent time.
Siân (social worker) is meeting with Melanie, a young person living in a residential home. Observe how the young person responds differently to the social worker in each example.
What it means to be transgender, the different ways in which trans people can experience discrimination from social workers and social care services and what good social work with trans people looks like.