Care Leavers Takeover Challenge In the morning young people worked with colleagues in the Social Work Workforce Development Team to audit the ASYE training programme and give their point of view how it can be developed and improved. One of the outcomes is that young people will be involved routinely in training In the afternoon seven care experienced young people worked to devise an afternoon of training for workers. Each of them worked with other young Devon’s newly qualified social people in care to script presentations based on issues that are important to them. Topics relationships’, teenage pregnancy’, health & wellbeing’, included ‘building ‘mental and on to independence’. The young people then hosted a question and ‘diversity’ ‘moving answer session where a chance to ask them directly for tips and advice. ASYE’s got The impact of Takeover Challenge The training session will now be doesn’t stop here. delivered to the Senior Management Team and filmed so that it can form Children’s Social Care part of an ongoing programme of training and development for social care and partner agency staff. We all really enjoyed the day and are proud of what we achieved training such a large audience. Feedback from participants was really good too, from the real experiences of young people is ‘Learning better than theory.’ the bit about the difference between being reliable and making the feeling ‘I leant lots … I loved you can be relied upon.’ Beth Wakefield & Sam Heaton Participation Apprentices
Care Leavers Takeover Challenge In the morning young people worked with colleagues in the Social Work Workforce Development Team to audit the ASYE training programme and give their point of view how it can be developed and improved. One of the outcomes is that young people will be involved routinely in training In the afternoon seven care experienced young people worked to devise an afternoon of training for Devon’s newly qualified social workers. Each of them worked with other young people in care to script presentations based on issues that are important to them. Topics included ‘building relationships’, teenage pregnancy’, ‘mental health & wellbeing’, ‘diversity’ and ‘moving on to independence’. The young people then hosted a question and answer session where ASYE’s got a chance to ask them directly for tips and advice. The impact of Takeover Challenge doesn’t stop here. The training session will now be delivered to the Children’s Social Care Senior Management Team and filmed so that it can form part of an ongoing programme of training and development for social care and partner agency staff. We all really enjoyed the day and are proud of what we achieved training such a large audience. Feedback from participants was really good too, ‘Learning from the real experiences of young people is better than theory.’ ‘I leant lots … I loved the bit about the difference between being reliable and making the feeling you can be relied upon.’ Beth Wakefield & Sam Heaton Participation Apprentices