Leaving Care

Keynotes is the best place to find out all about leaving care. The magazine comes out 6 times a year and enables you to keep up to date on all that is new - policy developments, innovative practice, and news from around the UK.

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Keynotes may 2010

In this edition you can read about the new Care planning, placement and review guidance and how the Young People's National Leaving Care Benchmarking forum is getting involved in policy development. The practice section includes a range of exciting projects such as Bradford LEAP and Catch22's SET4 Success showcasing alternative approaches to learning.

Keynotes January 2010

In this special issue we focus on education, training and employment (ETE). It includes updates from our employability scheme From Care2Work; information on apprenticeships; research into education for looked after children across Europe and ideas of how to use leisure activities to engage young people in ETE. It also includes information about the work of the West Midlands regional participation forum and how NCAS are involving peer researchers in the evaluation of the Care Matters pilots

Keynotes September 2009

In this issue you can read about the implementation of the Staying Put and Right2BCared4 piolts in North Yorkshire and North Tyneside and articles on unaccompained asylum seeking children. This edition of Keynotes says farewell to NCAS Service Manager - John Hill, we wish him the best of luck for the future

Keynotes email update July 2009

This issue includes information on the From Care 2 Work programme along with recent news, publications and consultations.

Keynotes May 2009

Welcome to the new improved Keynotes, updated in response to your comments in last year’s reader survey. In this issue you can read about the work Helen Southworth MP is doing to imprve accommodation options for care leaves along with lots of practice, policy, resources and news from the UK updates.

Keynotes email update March 2009

This issue includes information on the government's social mobility white paper along with recent news, publications and upcoming events.

Keynotes January 2009

In this issue we focus on the events of Care leavers week, feature the support offered to care leavers by many universities and give you updates on policy and practice from across the country.

keynotes email update November 2008

This issue includes recent news, events, publications and features an article on the new Children and Young Persons Act which came into force in November.

Keynotes September 2008

In this issue, the first since the launch of NCAS, we have included information about our new services. You can read about the Right2BeCared4 and Staying Put pilots and a number of articles about improving education, training and employment opportunities for young people in higher and further education and traineeships.

keynotes email update July 2008

Includes news on local authority indicators in LAAs, features an article on supported lodgings, upcoming events and recent publications.

Keynotes May 2008

Includes, information on the Children and Young Persons Bill and the Select Committee into children in care, an article from the Cabinet office, lots of practice news, upcoming events and recent publications plus research updates including international perspectives on leaving care.

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