Creativity Works* is currently working on a project to try and understand what creative activities young people (particularly those aged 14-25) who have experience of the care system are interested in and whether they are able to take part in these activities. Our goal is to assess whether the needs of care experienced children and young people are being met by the creative sector and, if not, to share insights from the research with the creative sector and social services and explore how provision might be developed to meet these needs.
We are working with Durham County Council’s Children’s Social Care to undertake this project.
A number of different groups of people are contributing to the project: care experienced young people; foster parents and other carers of young people; workforce who support care experienced young people (e.g. social workers); and, cultural organisations.
We’re hoping that you can help us by answering a few questions.
At the end of the project we will be sharing our learning via a dissemination event and a report which will be made available to you.
*Creativity Works is a social enterprise which creates opportunities for people from disadvantaged communities and marginalised groups to access the arts, develop artistic and creative skills sets, acquire industry specific know how and know who and build creative careers. The CIC works with cultural, arts and heritage organisations to reduce the barriers to engagement for disadvantaged and marginalised groups and address the lack of a diverse workforce across the creative sector.