VOICES from Leicestershire Cares

By Jacob Brown

The voices of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Every episode you will hear stories and narratives from our diverse communities, including young people, community leaders and volunteers.

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VOICES from Leicestershire Cares episodes:

August 12, 2024 All Things Youth Justice Podcast - Clearing the Record: Life Beyond Crime with Dr Nicola Collett
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45min
April 25, 2024 All Things Youth Justice podcast - The Power of a Good Work Ethic with Bav Majithia
The Youth Justice team We were honoured to host Bav Majithia from @yiannimize on the All Things Youth Justice podcast, where he shared his journey to success and emphasized the importance of giving back to the community.

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February 08, 2024 All Things Youth Justice Podcast - WHO's IN YOUR CIRCLE ?
This month on All Things Youth Justice: Chikodi and Jenny sit down with Janik from the Fryday Podcast to discuss the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people and the positive impact it can have.
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22min
December 12, 2023 Our findings: care experience as a protected characteristic
The peer researchers on the Joining Up Joining In project have shared the findings of the report - Should Care Experience be a Protected Characteristic . The findings of the report highlighted the views of care experienced young people in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. There is strong support for care experience being a protected characteristic (93%). The significant themes that came out of the work were:
- personal experiences
- stigma and discrimination
- impact of trauma
- lack of support
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12min
December 04, 2023 Connecting the dots between Aces and Crime
Join Chikodi and Jenny on the Youth Justice podcast as they delve into the connection between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and crime with special guest, Crae community navigator from the Phoenix program, sharing his real-life experiences.
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28min
August 13, 2023 Power to Change Project - Digital workshop podcast 001
Power to change project presents a Digital media workshop - podcast 001, with young the young people of Leicestershire, this is our first session back after a short break and we enter a new series, this episode was our first back with whole new line up of young people who came to engage, have some fun and learn some of the basics of podcasting and all things digital media so in this first session we allowed them complete freedom to be open and discuss whatever topic that they felt like covering. Enjoy.
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49min
August 07, 2023 Introduction To Violence Intervention Project
Introduction To Violence Intervention Project with Chikodi and Jenny from Leicestershire Cares
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11min
July 12, 2023 Care experience as a protected characteristic?
Leicestershire Cares presents the Joining Up, Joining In Podcast. Joining Up, Joining In aims to give care experienced young people a voice on the issues that matter to them. We’re delivering the project in collaboration with Learning and Work Institute and is funded by the Blagrave Trust.
Young people on the project have recently been exploring whether being care experienced should be recognised in the Equality Act 2010 as a protected characteristic. This is a debate that local authorities are having across the country, following the publication of the Review of Children’s Social Care in England. It was great to welcome Laura Summers from the Violence Reduction Network, Kane Grundy who is volunteering on our project and is a care experienced teacher, as well as Flory and El who are two of the young people participating on the project.
Leicestershire Cares is an award-winning charity which provides a range of support to care experienced young people to help them reach their potential. For more information, visit www.leicestershirecares.co.uk or follow our social media channels @LeicsCares.
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22min
February 18, 2022 Improving care leavers’ experiences of the welfare system
What are care leavers experiences of Universal Credit?

Care leavers face a number of challenges as they prepare to leave the care system and navigate towards living independently at a young age. They often need support to help them move into education, employment or training. However, there is evidence that the welfare system isn’t doing enough to support care leavers.

Through consultations with care leavers, desk research and expert interviews, L&W and young people from Leicestershire Cares, Drive Forward and Homes2Inspire have identified six policy changes that we believe would improve care leavers’ experiences of the welfare system and help them to achieve better outcomes.
Proposed policy changes
1. A designated lead at every Jobcentre Plus, focused on care leavers
2. Introduction of a ‘marker’ for care leavers when they enter into the welfare system
3. All care leavers should be entitled to the over-25s rate in Universal Credit
4. Right to advanced payment grant (not loan)
5. Clear step by step escalation protocol for applying sanctions
6. All care leavers should be exempt from paying council tax, up to the age of 25

Improving care leavers’ experiences of the welfare system
About the project
With the support of Lloyds Bank Foundation, Learning and Work Institute (L&W) is working with young people from Leicestershire Cares, Drive Forward and Homes2Inspire to understand care leavers’ experiences of the welfare system.
#CEYPPodcast #CEYP #CareLeavers #TogetherWeCan
@LeicsCares
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34min
January 04, 2022 Community in Action: Covid-19 Vaccine information in Gujarati
This Podcast discusses COVID-19 in different languages to inform our diverse communities of the most frequently asked questions relating to Covid-19 Vaccination and the importance of having the vaccine when offered to us. The aim is to empower our communities to make informed choices and tackle misinformation and cater to these needs in their native languages from trusted voices within their communities.
Twitter: @LeicsCares
[email protected]
#TogetherWeCan

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8min

FAQs about VOICES from Leicestershire Cares:

How many episodes does VOICES from Leicestershire Cares have?

The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.