Supported by Youth Music, Darlington Borough Council, Redcar & Cleveland Council and Creative Darlington, This Is The Place is a music-based initiative dedicated to enriching the lives of care-experienced children and the adults who support them.

This is the Place includes:

• Music-making sessions for babies and children
• Early years music training for foster carers and council staff
• Free early years music-making resources available online
• Free music-making kits

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As part of Blue Cabin’s learning and evaluation partnership with Tialt – There is an Alternative, we’ve taken a deep dive into the project to explore its impact through surveys, site visits, reflective interviews and analysis of blog posts and podcasts.

The report includes:

• The approach taken to devising and delivering This is the Place
• Key outcomes including musical outcomes, social outcomes and organisational outcomes
• Emerging impacts
• Possible futures