Resources
This section shares resources created during this project that we’d like to invite you to use. There are lots of images, some bits of reading, and are videos too. We ask that after you’ve engaged with them you take time to reflect on what you’ve learnt and think about how you may use this learning to support our vision – that we care for care leavers like we would our own children.
If you’d like to use any of the materials for non commercial learning and development purposes please credit us: Relationships First, by Designed by Society and Falkirk Council. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Care leavers experiences
- Learn about seven care leaver’s experiences’ of important relationships to them as they left care.
- See key moments they identifed as meaningful.
- Read about what they said to people and what they thought.
- Think about why they may have communicated in this way.
Different ways of being Corporate Parents
During the research process Public Servants create portraits that illustrate different ways people are currently being Corporate Parents in Falkirk Council. They placed the portraits on a relational continuum. As you read through this document:
- Where you would place yourself on this continuum?
- Develop your own Corporate Parenting portrait.
- If you’d like to move along the continuum where may you like to move to and where you could seek support to do this?
The experiences we want more of
Each person has different perspectives on what love and relationships look like between young people and corporate parents. In this document we offer you insights into our perspectives.
- Do you already engage in these approaches at work?
- Are there approaches highlighted here you could develop?
- When you designing and re-design services, could you include these experiential outcomes as part of your service design process?
Why we need to better enable relationships with young people as they leave care
Watch this 3-minute video from the Co-Design Crew about why relationships are important.
What can love look like between young people leaving care and corporate parents?
Watch this 3-minute video from the Co-Design Crew which shows you what love can look like.
What can make it difficult for care leavers and corporate parents to show love?
Watch this 3-minute video from the Co-Design Crew that shows you what some of these difficulties can look like.
What makes if possible for care leavers and corporate parents to show love?
Watch this 3-minute video from the Co-Design Crew that shows you what these possibilites in action.
Experience based research findings in Falkirk Council
Care leavers and public servants from Falkirk Council conducted experience-based interviews with 45 people about i) important relationships as young people leave care, ii) experiences of caring for young people as they left care, and iii) experiences of being a corporate parent generally. Their data identified several barriers and enablers to relationships between corporate parents and care leavers in Falkirk Council.
- Do you experience any of these barriers and enablers at work?
- How do you think the barriers you experience could be addressed, and the enablers shared more widely?
Corporate Parenting Service Design Principles
Service Design Principles are a set of considerations that help people make decisions while they are designing services and evaluate what they’ve designed.
These seven Corporate Parenting Service Design principles have been created after synthesising the Co-Design Crews research findings.
- How could you use these principles when re-designing and designing services which serve care leavers?
Service Design concept #1 – Hug in a Mug
Are you pondering how you could you put love and relationships at the heart of leaving service provision? Hug in a Mug offers you a service design concept and policy prototype to get you started. What could you do with this?
Service Design concept #2 – Heart on Sleeve
Are you pondering how you could you put love and relationships at the heart of leaving service provision? Heart on Sleeve offers you a service design concept and to get you started. What could you do with this?
Service Design concept #3 – Share the Care
Are you pondering how you could you put love and relationships at the heart of leaving service provision? Heart on Sleeve offers you a service design concept and policy prototype to get you started. What could you do with this?
Learning Review
Want to learn more about the impact of engaging in this kind of project work? You can find out more here.