Articles tagged as Care experienced young people

Blue Cabin’s Local Authority Specialist, Joanne Stoddart, shares her experience on why life story work is important when working with care-experienced children and young people.

Blue Cabin Trustee, Ryan Humphrey, draws on his research and experience of community music programmes to explain the impactful and essential role music-making may have for children in the early years.

Children who have been, or are in care, are vastly over-represented in the justice system: care leavers are estimated to represent between 24% (1) and 27% (2) of the adult prison population, despite being just 2% of the adult population.

The Artful Alliance is a national action research programme exploring cultural and creative education for care-experienced children and young people.

A group of young people from Redcar and Cleveland have worked with Blue Cabin to make a short film sharing their experiences of being in care.

Blue Cabin and Nepacs have been awarded funding to deliver a creative arts programme with care-experienced young men serving sentences at Deerbolt Prison in County Durham.