How professionals working with care experienced people can support their aspirations in the context of prior trauma.
About this Event

We will reflect on how professionals working with care experienced people can support their aspirations in the context of prior trauma. Learn more about:

Negotiating the precipice of adulthood and navigating children’s services, leaving care teams, housing services and adult services
How to maintain, communicate and support high aspirations for care experienced young people, even in times of crisis
How to support education, employment and training opportunities for care experienced young people
The transformational opportunities that kindness in practice offers to care experienced young people

Your Facilitator

Alex Kemp - Speaker, trainer, writer and consultant
B.A. (Hons.) Social Work
Master of Public Administration with distinction
Former Her Majesty’s Inspector of children’s social care in England

Alexander is a leading speaker, trainer, consultant and writer. He has over 20 years’ experience as a practitioner and senior leader in social care. Alex is care experienced. He was the first known care experienced person to hold the role of Her Majesty’s Inspector of children’s social care and one of only a handful of care experienced people to progress into such senior roles in children’s social care. This unique blend of personal and professional experiences ensures Alex is well placed to support organisations and professionals across the helping professions. He offers insightful, inspiring keynote speeches and accessible, evidence-based training.

Your Host

Lisa Cherry is the Director of Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Ltd leading a dynamic and creative organisation that provides a 'one stop' approach to delivering on research, consultancy and learning and development. Lisa is an author, researcher, leading international trainer and consultant, specialising in assisting schools, services and systems to create systemic change to the way that we work with those experiencing and living with, the legacy of trauma. Lisa has been working in and around Education and Children’s Services for over 30 years and combines academic knowledge and research with professional expertise and personal experience. Lisa has worked extensively with Social workers, Educators, Probation Workers and those in Adult Services, training and speaking to over 30,000 people around the world including in the US, Australia and Pakistan and across the whole of the UK.

Lisa has produced multiple pieces of research for various settings and Lisa's own MA research looked at the impact on education and employment for care experienced adults who experienced school exclusion as children in the 1970's and 1980's. Lisa has recently completed her DPhil research at The University of Oxford in the Department of Education, asking the research question "How do care experienced adults who were also excluded from school make sense of belonging?"

Lisa is the author of the hugely successful book 'Conversations that make a difference for Children and Young People' (2021)and ‘The Brightness of Stars’ 3rd Edition published in June 2022. Lisa is working on her latest book due for publication in 2024/2025 on Cultivating Belonging.