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How we’ve set up the Backpack Youth Advisors programme and what we’ve learned from it (2/2)
How we’ve set up the Backpack Youth Advisors programme and what we’ve learned from it (2/2)
This article explores how our team worked with Barnardo’s Employment, Training & Skills (ETS) staff and young people on the Barnardo’s…
Cynthia V. Lusilu
May 20
How we’ve set up the Backpack Youth Advisors programme and what we’ve learned from it (1/2)
How we’ve set up the Backpack Youth Advisors programme and what we’ve learned from it (1/2)
This article explores how our team worked with Barnardo’s Employment, Training & Skills (ETS) staff and young people on the Barnardo’s…
Cynthia V. Lusilu
May 20
Backpack: using research to support product development
Backpack: using research to support product development
There is a lack of understanding and support for practitioners when it comes to dealing with online risks and harms. This has emerged…
Hector Gardiner
Nov 27, 2023
That’s a rap! Three creative methods for co-designing with young people
That’s a rap! Three creative methods for co-designing with young people
Barnardo’s has partnered with East Riding of Yorkshire Council (ERYC) to design a system that responds better to the needs of exploited…
Natasha Morgan
Aug 24, 2023
How to work with triggering content
Much of the content that we work with is informed by trauma. This can affect anyone in a project team but is most likely to impact the…
Steph Mann
Jun 19, 2023
Digital: What’s the harm?
Digital: What’s the harm?
Barnardo’s is working with Nominet and Parent Zone to combat online harms.
Sarah Clive
May 22, 2023
Co-design in children’s residential care
Co-design in children’s residential care
In 2021, Essex County Council and Barnardo’s formed a ‘strategic partnership’, together with delivery partner AdoptionPlus. The aim was to…
Natasha Morgan
Dec 12, 2022
Developing ‘support’ content for ‘mymentalhealth’ with Barnardo’s service teams
Developing ‘support’ content for ‘mymentalhealth’ with Barnardo’s service teams
Where is the overlap between users’ needs and Barnardo’s expertise?
Ellen Booker
Nov 15, 2022
Working with Barnardo’s services to develop the ‘mymentalhealth’ platform
Working with Barnardo’s services to develop the ‘mymentalhealth’ platform
In previous research posts we explained the first phase of our work to develop online support for young people. We carried out research…
Hector Gardiner
Oct 22, 2022
How we named our digital mental health support
How we named our digital mental health support
Our last research post explained how we worked with young people to understand potential needs for digital mental health support. This post…
Hector Gardiner
Sep 29, 2022
Designing digital mental health support with young people
Designing digital mental health support with young people
In Barnardo’s Innovation lab we are establishing an online mental health presence. We’ve already shared the context behind this piece of…
Amy Steyaert
Aug 3, 2022
Investigating digital mental health support with young people
Investigating digital mental health support with young people
Digital mental health support has continued to grow in importance over the last few years. A March 2022 Government response to a Health…
Hector Gardiner
Jul 8, 2022
Across the generations — bringing together service design for younger and older people
Across the generations — bringing together service design for younger and older people
The cornerstone of innovation is the bringing together of ideas from seemingly disparate worlds.
Natasha Morgan
May 19, 2022
Finding digital mental health support, starting with Barnardo’s
Finding digital mental health support, starting with Barnardo’s
Barnardo’s provides local mental health services across the country, working with local authorities and partners to provide support for…
Ellen Booker
Mar 30, 2022
This is how we do design thinking for children’s social care — and we’re hiring
This is how we do design thinking for children’s social care — and we’re hiring
We’re really excited to open up two new mid-weight Service Design roles in Barnardo’s Innovation Lab team. We’d like to give potential…
Tom Norman
Dec 14, 2021
Can reducing loneliness increase online resilience for care-experienced young people?
Can reducing loneliness increase online resilience for care-experienced young people?
In 2020 the NSPCC published a landmark report evidencing lonely children in the UK are twice as likely to be groomed online. Later in the…
Irit Pollak
Nov 17, 2021
Care Journeys Project Acorn: what’s next and recommendations for reducing loneliness at scale [Part…
Care Journeys Project Acorn: what’s next and recommendations for reducing loneliness at scale [Part…
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…
Irit Pollak
Nov 10, 2021
Care Journeys Project Acorn: co-producing People I Tolerate, a care-experienced youth group [Part…
Care Journeys Project Acorn: co-producing People I Tolerate, a care-experienced youth group [Part…
In March 2021 Plymouth Care Journeys started a two year co-production programme called Project Acorn — because from tiny acorns mighty…
Irit Pollak
Nov 10, 2021
Care Journeys Project Acorn: What we learned about co-production and reducing loneliness[Part 2]
Care Journeys Project Acorn: What we learned about co-production and reducing loneliness[Part 2]
In summer 2021 we tested People I Tolerate, a care-experienced youth group, for six weeks with a group of seven care-experienced young…
Irit Pollak
Nov 10, 2021
Co-design online with Brent Care Journeys
Co-design online with Brent Care Journeys
There is a gap in the measured outcomes for care-experienced and non-care experienced young people. Barnardo’s has invested significantly…
Rhiannon Creasey
Jun 25, 2021
What does it really look like to put young people first?
What does it really look like to put young people first?
Innovating our service delivery in Barnardo’s through user research
Henrynaylor
May 6, 2021
Building the evidence base for supporting late entrants to care: Part III
Building the evidence base for supporting late entrants to care: Part III
In the first and second blog posts in this series, I highlighted our strategic approach to understanding the experiences of late entrants…
Sohila Sawhney
May 6, 2021
Building the evidence base for supporting late entrants to care: Part II
Building the evidence base for supporting late entrants to care: Part II
In this post, I describe the lessons learned from getting our Discovery research up and running, and the impact of Covid on our plans.
Sohila Sawhney
Apr 21, 2021
Building the evidence base for supporting late entrants to care: Part I
Building the evidence base for supporting late entrants to care: Part I
This is the first of three posts where I’ll be sharing things I’ve learned from research into the experiences of young people in care.
Sohila Sawhney
Apr 15, 2021
Reflecting on Innovation Lab’s first year, Part 1
Reflecting on Innovation Lab’s first year, Part 1
Establishing a team during a pandemic
Tom Norman
Mar 29, 2021
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