Webinar recording: Digital innovations in care leavers’ services

Recorded on Wednesday 30th September

Co-hosted by SCIE, Social Finance and Looking Local

The COVID-19 crisis has swept away some longstanding barriers to digital working, and demonstrated the benefits and opportunities of this shift, as well as the challenges. For young people leaving care, who may no longer be in direct contact with children’s services, digitally-enabled approaches have huge potential to increase engagement, develop better insight and improve outcomes.

This webinar discusses learning and insights from recent digital and data innovations in care leavers’ services, including work to understand outcomes and experiences from the perspective of care leavers. It also dives into Leaving Well, a digital tool developed with six local authorities across the UK that can now be adopted by other councils to support improved care leaver practice.

The webinar also marks the launch of our new Care Leaver Improvement Community. This is an opportunity to join us and other services in a collaboration to improve your care leaver provision through digital innovation, better use of data and insight, and practice support.

Who is this for?

Professionals responsible for or involved in the delivery of care leavers’ services – heads of service, team managers, personal advisors and social workers.

Discussion topics

• Care leaver policy and practice landscape – COVID-19, review of the care system.
• Measuring outcomes for care leavers – evidence, gaps, opportunities.
• Digital innovations for care leavers.
• Leaving Well digital tool – learning and experiences of the early adopters.

Your panel

• Hayley Smith, Practice Development Social Worker and colleagues from Doncaster
• Linda Briheim, Head of Policy & Practice Development, Coram Voice
• Tanveer Sian, Senior Analyst, Social Finance
• Emma Smale, Head of Research & Children’s Social Care, SCIE