Pan London Children In Care Council

The London CiCC is sponsored by ALDCS (Association for London Directors of Children’s Services) with the following key aims:

To improve the care experience for looked-after children & young people and care leavers across London;
To improve opportunities to identify common themes and issues across London;
To enable opportunities to influence policy and services affecting looked after children & young people and care leavers in London;
To improve young people’s skills and confidence through participation.

Our Work

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Programme of work

The following activities are proposals and guidelines to future developments based on existing work and suggestions from the young people we work with, as well as recent developments.

Regional influence

"Members of the London Care Leavers Trust Board were delighted to meet with Minister Daby, the government Minister for Children and Families, to discuss the Pan London Care Leavers Compact and the government's national ambition for care leavers."

"Young people highlighted to the Minister the need to collaborate across all services to ensure we are ambitious for young people with care experience. The group discussed the enormous potential stemming from upcoming legislation to extend corporate parenting responsibilities to all government departments and relevant public bodies. "

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Outreach to CICCs

Voter ID workshops are taking place across London with the Care Champions highlight young people's right to vote and the changes to Voter ID

Updates

Accessing Care: Health, Hope and Change for Care-Experienced Young People

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Black, Bold and Beautiful by Louisa

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Rising as Me Short Film

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National Care Leavers Month - FREEDOM TALKERS

FREEDOM TALKERS is a podcast created by and for care experienced people a space to speak truth, challenge systems, and celebrate survival. Each episode dives into stories of identity, opportunity, and the Pan London Offer where we are trying to make offers consistent across London for all care leavers. Shining a light on what real freedom looks like when care leavers take the mic. This isn’t charity talk. It’s change talk. We’re amplifying voices that have too often

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Accessing Care: Health, Hope and Change for Care-Experienced Young People

This video, produced by Pan London Children In Care Council and Aran Knowles, was commissioned by NHS North East London ICB. This short film gives us an insight on the perspectives of young care-experienced Londoners and the struggles of accessing healthcare. We look at the challenges and explore examples of good practice in place across North East London. A huge thank you everyone involved for their participation in this project! Click here to see the full video.

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Black, Bold and Beautiful by Louisa

Black, Bold and Beautiful is a poem written by Louisa Foyle. Lived truth in verse. a poem born from the inbetween: between girlhood and motherhood between belonging and being displaced between silence and song. It’s about identity not the one given to her but the one she claimed, shaped through resilience rhythm, and radical self love. This poem isn’t just words it’s a movement. For every young person who was ever labelled for every Black girl who turned survival into art f

Louisa Foyle

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Freedom Talkers Podcast

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National Care Leavers Month - FREEDOM TALKERS

FREEDOM TALKERS is a podcast created by and for care experienced people a space to speak truth, challenge systems, and celebrate survival. Each episode dives into stories of identity, opportunity, and the Pan London Offer where we are trying to make offers consistent across London for all care leavers. Shining a light on what real freedom looks like when care leavers take the mic. This isn’t charity talk. It’s change talk. We’re amplifying voices that have too often

Accessing Care: Health, Hope and Change for Care-Experienced Young People

This video, produced by Pan London Children In Care Council and Aran Knowles, was commissioned by NHS North East London ICB. This short film gives us an insight on the perspectives of young care-experienced Londoners and the struggles of accessing healthcare. We look at the challenges and explore examples of good practice in place across North East London. A huge thank you everyone involved for their participation in this project! Click here to see the full video.

Black, Bold and Beautiful by Louisa

Black, Bold and Beautiful is a poem written by Louisa Foyle. Lived truth in verse. a poem born from the inbetween: between girlhood and motherhood between belonging and being displaced between silence and song. It’s about identity not the one given to her but the one she claimed, shaped through resilience rhythm, and radical self love. This poem isn’t just words it’s a movement. For every young person who was ever labelled for every Black girl who turned survival into art f

National Care Leavers Month - Rising as Me Film

Rising as Me by Louisa Foyle Pan London Children in Care Council There’s a moment in every care experienced person’s life when you stop surviving as someone’s story and start rising as your own. For too long the word care has been defined by systems, not by us. But this month we reclaim it. We rise as our whole selves’ complex, creative, independent, and free. “Rising As Me” is about identity beyond the paperwork. It’s about learning that you are not your file, your place