From Voice to Impact: The future of lived and living experience
Description
What does it take to move beyond simply hearing lived and living experience voices to ensuring they genuinely influence decisions, organisations and systems?
Join the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare for the launch of our new Lived and Living Experience (LLE) Online Hub, followed by a special interactive webinar with international guest speaker Clare Holdsworth from the UK.
Clare will share findings from her Churchill Fellowship exploring best-practice approaches to paid lived and living experience, voice and influence roles across Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
Clare brings more than two decades of experience working alongside care-experienced children and young people. Her work in Sheffield has included developing paid roles grounded in therapeutic support, flexible working, mentoring and genuine career pathways. A previous Centre event with Clare explored how organisations can create psychological safety, embed lived experience within organisational systems and create wider employment pathways for people in lived experience roles.
During her Australian visit earlier this year, Clare met with the Centre, young people and leaders in lived and living experience practice.
From listening to change
Following Clare’s presentation, participants will join one of three facilitated discussions focused on what needs to change next:
1. Psychological safety
How do we get from psychological safety being seen as an HR responsibility to psychological safety being everyone’s responsibility, so lived experience professionals can genuinely thrive?
2. Sustainable career pathways
How do we get from paid lived experience, participation and peer roles to meaningful development and sustainable career pathways for all?
3. Organisational influence
How do we get from having lived experience represented in programs and projects to embedding lived experience across organisational culture, policy, functions and decision-making?
These discussions are an opportunity to share experience, learn from others and contribute to conversations about the future of lived and living experience practice and impact.
Register now and help shape what meaningful lived and living experience influence looks like in practice.
Keynote speaker
Clare Holdsworth
Clare manages a team of care-experienced Voice and Influence Workers at Sheffield City Council, supporting young people to use their experiences to influence services, practice and change. The team runs youth voice groups for young people in care, undertakes creative peer research, leads a reverse scrutiny process that holds Children’s Social Care to account, and produces its own podcast. Clare has worked for many years in advocacy and youth voice and is passionate about meaningful co-production that creates genuine pathways from participation and volunteering into paid employment. She has supported young people to progress from volunteering with their Children in Care Council to being employed to run it themselves. Through her Churchill Fellowship, Clare is exploring best-practice approaches to paid employment for care-experienced young people in voice, influence and change roles. Her aim is to strengthen the Sheffield model and develop practical resources that other local authorities can use to establish their own Voice and Influence teams. Ultimately, Clare wants paid pathways into voice and influence employment for care-experienced young people to become a standard expectation of local authorities, supported by a strong, evidence-informed model for putting this into practice.
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