Coming soon: New, updated Foundations Guidebook
Next week Foundations will launch a new, updated Guidebook – a free, easy-to-use online resource, which puts robust evidence to support decision-making across the spectrum of early intervention and children’s services at the fingertips of local decision makers and national policy makers. Finding out what works best to support children and families is not easy, […]
Building the evidence on effective mentoring and befriending support for care-experienced children and young people
Nimal Jude, Head of Foundations’ new Practice Development Team, introduces the latest Practice Guide for local leaders. The Guide, commissioned by the Department for Education and produced by Foundations, draws on powerful new evidence from a systematic review, conducted by Liverpool John Moores University, about the benefits of mentoring and befriending for care-experienced children and […]
Impact of mentoring and befriending practice & interventions for ‘at-risk’ and care-experienced children & young people
Mentoring and Befriending Practice Guide
This Practice Guide has been produced to help senior leaders, in local authorities and third sector organisations, to commission and expand the availability of evidence-based mentoring and befriending programmes that have been found to improve outcomes for children and young people.
The power of mentoring: What it meant for me
In this blog, Princess Bestman, Arts and Wellbeing Practitioner, Care Advocate and advisory group member for the Mentoring and Befriending Practice Guide, reflects on their experience of mentoring, the impact that it can have, and why it is so important. It’s been interesting to be part of the Advisory Group for the upcoming Mentoring and […]
Relationships for care experienced children
The ‘cliff edge’ some children experience when leaving care can be isolating and lonely – we want to better understand how to support children in developing relationships that last when they leave care
Staying Close Feasibility Study
Care leavers’ experiences of emotional wellbeing support while leaving care
School non-attendance by children with a social worker in the UK
Care Leavers’ Emotional Wellbeing: A zine of findings and responses
Foundations, the new national What Works Centre for Children & Families
Today is an exciting day: the day we launch as a fully merged, newly branded organisation – Foundations, the national What Works Centre for Children & Families. We’ve brought together two sister organisations with a shared aim, and today marks the start of a new vision, mission and strategy through which we will support vulnerable […]
