Taking into consideration what we learned in Project Acorn cycle 01, outlined in post 01 and post 02, this is the plan for where we’re headed in Project Acorn cycle 02. We’ll be testing out a rolling social action programme for care-experienced young people Social action is people coming together to tackle an issue, support other people, or improve their local area. How will the programme work? Care…

In March 2021 Plymouth Care Journeys started a two year co-production programme called Project Acorn — because from tiny acorns mighty oaks grow. The purpose of Project Acorn is to test peer-to-peer methods of reducing loneliness for and with care-experienced young people. We divided the two year programme into 4…

In summer 2021 we tested People I Tolerate, a care-experienced youth group, for six weeks with a group of seven care-experienced young people between the ages of 16–18 years old. …

In Post 01 and Post 02 I shared how the Care Journeys team worked with care-experienced young people to co-produce services to reduce loneliness and social isolation for other care-experienced young people. To achieve our ambition of changing the care journey, so that everyone who interacts with it — whether…

In Post 01 I shared what we learned from doing co-production in the Design Lab with care-experienced young people to reduce loneliness and social isolation. …

“Harry Potter was a foster child. Pip from “Great Expectations” was adopted; Superman was a foster child; Cinderella was a foster child; Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, was fostered and institutionalised; Batman was orphaned…How have we not made the connection? And why have we not made the…

WADUP is a storytelling platform run by young people and creative producers, working remotely with teens across the globe to produce their own podcast episodes and encourage other teens to speak about what matters to them. The first season of WADUP’s podcast has been co-produced by teens from Romania, Israel…

WADUP is a storytelling platform run by young people and creative producers, working remotely with teens across the globe to produce their own podcast episodes and encourage other teens to speak about what matters to them. The first season of WADUP’s podcast has been co-produced by teens from Romania, Israel…

This is the first issue of Dispatches from the Real World. For more about this new series from Doteveryone, read our introductory post. Thanks to materials shortages and an entirely privatised building industry, Britain found itself unable to house the millions of veterans coming home after World War I. This…