London's Local Authorities are proud to be part of the Pan-London Care Leavers Compact, a city-wide support offer for care-experienced Londoners.
Today is Care Day, the world's biggest celebration of children and young people with care experience.
Members of the LIIA team were delighted to attend the #SafeSpace24 conference in Glasgow.
LIIA was delighted to be invited to the Labour Party's Youth Sector Reception this week. It was great to spend time with Yvette Cooper (Shadow Home Secretary) and Feryal Clark (Shadow Minister for Crime Reduction) highlighting the positive impact for London’s children of working collaboratively, innovatively and impactfully across Children’s…
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Read the latest LIIA Newsletter, representing the culture of collaboration between directors, and across London's children's services.
Read London's latest Workforce Programme Newsletter, summarising this years progress and upcoming activities.
Responding effectively to violence affecting young people can feel overwhelming. Dr Karla Goodman discusses the challenge of addressing violence affecting young people and introduces the Your Choice programme in her recent MJ commentary piece.
Read the December 2023 Adolescent Safeguarding & Youth Justice Leaders Newsletter.
We will be running an exciting London SEND Leadership Programme from Spring 2024 for current and aspiring leaders, in partnership with Health and Parent/Carer representatives.
The recent NEL Adolescent Safeguarding Event, held in Waltham Forest, marked the 1-year anniversary of the publication of the Adolescent Safeguarding Handbook. The aim of the event was to bring together the safeguarding partnerships in Northeast London to revisit the 2022 Adolescent Safeguarding handbook
March 2024
Your Choice webinar hosted by Hillingdon Council as part of Social Work England
October 2023
Your Choice Pilot Report Published
The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) published the findings from the pilot trial of the London Young People Study.
Read the report here.
October 2021 – March 2022
Home Office phase
The Home Office funded the first phase of the Your Choice programme.