Lived Experience Leader | Director of Strategy for @TheCareLeaders | Storyteller & Speaker | Award Winning Social Entrepreneur ✌🏻
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Luke Rodgers BEM retweeted
🎉 Win a Signed Copy of "Free Loaves on Fridays" by @RebekahPierre92 🎉
Join our LIVE session on using language for positive change in childrens social care!
➡️ 3 attendees get SIGNED books!
Register now: lnkd.in/egsfhX8q
#LivedExperienceLeader #SocialWork #FosterCare
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JOB OPPORTUNITY!
Join @TheNationalHP and their growing team as a Young People's Participation and Development Worker.
Closing date: 12/01/24
Apply below today.⬇️
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#NHP #Recruitment #CareExperienced #Job #HouseProject
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Already looking forward to this!
A great opportunity to recognise and celebrate social work and young people supported by social workers.
Who would you nominate?
Time to start thinking before nominations open in January...
The Frontline Awards is back for its second year in 2024! We are more excited than ever to celebrate fantastic social workers across the country and most importantly the young people they support. Nominations open in January! thefrontline.org.uk/who-we-a…
ALT Frontline Awards 2024
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At 13 I went into care. At 16 I was kicked out of care & went back to an unstable situation. At 18 I studied law at uni. At 25 I was called to the Bar. At 26 I secured Pupillage. In interviews, I took pride in who I am & where I come from. It’s what formed the advocate within me.
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A truly inspiring day with @TheCareLeaders.
So much experience and insight in one room!
Really excited about our partnership, and the strength that comes from bringing together diverse perspectives.
Doing good things, with good people for good causes that put children first. Great day generating ideas and galvanising energy with @FrontlineSW.
#Allyship
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🎉 WE WON!!! 🎉
Thank you to all of the incredible people that have supported & worked with us! We are incredibly honoured to be the proud winners of the @cypnow award for 'work force development' ⭐️
#CareLeaver to #CareLeader @Luke_Rodgers
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10 yrs ago I left teaching to set up @FrontlineSW to get thousands more children access to a great social worker and to build a network of leaders for change. Special to see so many staff, supporters, alumni and care leavers at the 10 yr anniversary who’ve made it a reality!
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I think one of the subtler ways #CareExperienced people can be stigmatised is via pity. I’ve experienced it before (in my profession too).
Pity isn’t compassion. It’s a voice of prejudice involving looking down on someone.
We are your equals, please engage with us as such 🙏🏼
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NAVSH Chair, Matthew Cooke, is at @johnlewisretail Building Happy Futures event today.
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Childhood in care raises risk of entering English youth justice system eightfold. New study reveals 33% of care-experienced children received a youth justice caution or conviction, compared with 4% of those without care experience. theguardian.com/society/2023…
Luke Rodgers BEM retweeted
I think it needs looking at in depth & research based!
Also keen to see the impact of other protected characteristics before making the argument for CE to be added!
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There’s a lot of mixed reviews on the Joe Swash documentary. Here’s my hot takes (after spending nearly a decade trying to reform social care):
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Great Conference, our Care Leavers will be Care Leaders! Thanks to our care experienced young people, @Luke_Rodgers and @saeedatcha; and @RochdaleCouncil for organising
Great to see @Luke_Rodgers today at the Rochdale Care Experienced Conference - so much positive feedback for Luke, lots of energy in challenging the system, unconscious bias and a call to arms for our commitment to care experienced young people in the Borough #raisingrochdale
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Great to see @Luke_Rodgers today at the Rochdale Care Experienced Conference - so much positive feedback for Luke, lots of energy in challenging the system, unconscious bias and a call to arms for our commitment to care experienced young people in the Borough #raisingrochdale
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💥 3 Benefits of a Trauma-Informed Approach:
1️⃣ Empowered Resilience
2️⃣ Healing and Growth
3️⃣ Positive Outcomes
By adopting a trauma-informed approach you can be a catalyst for positive change in the lives of young people.
#livedexperience #careexperience
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This Children and Young People Now article focuses on my take on why the campaign to make care experience a protected characteristic is so important. Thank you to @cypnow for reporting on this! cypnow.co.uk/news/article/ta…
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Great to speak today about The Family Business and what more we can do to get the right opportunities for care leavers. Suffolk are well on way with their Family Business Skills Academy for care leavers - sustained support from getting the job and keeping it. Well done Suffolk.
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Thank you @CareLeavers @Luke_Rodgers for your powerful key note! We feel inspired and energised to continue to show unconditional positive regard, challenge stigma and voice high expectations for all our children. These things change children's lives!
#Beyondthebehaviour
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📚 Join the inspiring journey of Luke
Rodgers BEM, founder of The Care Leaders, empowering young people in care to become leaders of their own lives.
Read the blog now. 🔗 thecareleaders.com/from-care…
#livedexperience #careexperienced
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A fantastic and informative day @TheVSM2022 annual conference#languagethatcares
Absolutely blown away by @maryhodd and the resilience she has shown. Such an emotional yet exhilarating workshop#vsm#middlesbroughchildrenmatter