CELCIS, in partnership with Coram Voice, is bringing the ‘Bright Spots’ programme, with its two online wellbeing surveys, to Scotland.
The surveys, ‘Your Life, Your Care’, and ‘Your Life Beyond Care’, have been developed to provide an opportunity for children and young people to share their experiences of care and how they feel about their lives, based on what they say is important.
The pilot will provide local authorities a new opportunity to listen to the voices of their care experienced children and young people to drive local service provision and focus on change where children and young people say it is needed.
In ‘The Promise’, the Independent Care Review (2020) reported that ‘Scotland collects data on the ‘care system’ and its inputs, processes and outputs rather than what matters to the experiences and outcomes of the people who live in and around it’. By participating in the ‘Bright Spots’ programme, local authorities have another opportunity to demonstrate that they are listening to care experienced children and young people, and this is informing services that impact on children and young people’s wellbeing, care experience and through care and aftercare.
If you would like to find out more about the pilot, or arrange an initial meeting/call with the CELCIS team, please send us an email at: celcis.brightspots@strath.ac.uk