SIG Group meeting - Children & Young People in Care and Care Experienced
Guest Speaker: Rebekah Pierre, BASW Professional Officer and Care Experienced person.
Rebekah is a care experienced and qualified social worker who has been actively involved in the appeal process of Article 39. She is passionate that 16 to 17 year olds within the care system should not be left vulnerable. She is keen to work with the AoCPP to raise the profile of 16-17 year olds, advocating for equity for all children within the care system, to help support and influence policy going forward. We look forward to hearing from Rebekah and debating this important area of challenge.
| Ticket Type | Price | Cart |
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| Non Member Ticket 15 June 2022 | £15.00 | |
| Members Ticket 15 June 2022 | £0.00 |
Rebekah Pierre is a care-experienced social worker and author, who currently works for the British Association of Social Workers. She has written extensively about the care system, featuring in The Guardian, The Independent, Radio 4 & others. Rebekah's lived experience is central to her campaign work; her peer-reviewed journal, 'Revisiting Diary Entries from Care: An Exposition of the Challenges of Unregulated Placement Settings', examines her childhood diary extracts from an autoethnographic perspective, linking lived experience to wider policy failures. She represented the #KeepCaringto18 campaign at Downing Street earlier this year and is passionate about equality of care for all children.
It has improved my knowledge and understanding about the range of harms caused to children and their impact as I have been able to network with a wide range of experts from the UK and beyond. There is no other multidisciplinary association for child protection professionals focused on learning to support and improve practice and policy
