Professionals
The LILAC project can help your service develop and embed its approach to participation. It allows you to use a framework for involvement which has been developed by care-experienced young people to improve the policy and practice of your service in how you involve and consult with your looked after children and care leavers.
It provides a unique opportunity for independent assessment, undertaken by care experienced young people.
The LILAC training sessions are designed to look at participation from the framework of the seven LILAC standards and to help you focus on any weak areas and to further develop good practice.
The Assessment Process
The assessments can cover services such as Fostering, Residential and Leaving Care services and you can choose which you would like to cover. The assessment procedure will consist of:
- Scrutiny of some key policies and procedures
- 2-3 days meeting children and staff
- Immediate verbal feedback
- A written, professionally produced report
You will be awarded a LILAC quality mark for satisfactory services.
Training
The LILAC training sessions are designed to be delivered to care staff, foster carers or children and young people. Built around the LILAC standards the sessions deal with participation and involvement from both a strategic level and on a day to day front-line level.
The training is delivered by care-experienced young people who have undergone accredited training on participation training and the LILAC standards.
Costs
The cost of an assessment and for the LILAC training sessions are heavily subsidised by the BIG National Lottery grant and you are only asked to cover the expenses and fees of the young people involved.
Feedback on the LILAC assessments and training
Assessments
"Nice to have care–experienced young people coming to interview us, rather than people in suits"
(Young person interviewed by LILAC team)
“The fact that the LILAC team are all former care adults gives the process greater credibility”
(service manager, pilot local authority )
“The LILAC standards are the most important, the most challenging and the best because they come direct from the experiences of young people from Care themselves”
Training
“It has been a very informative, interesting and busy day. Great to be lead throughout by knowledgable and enthusiastic young people, brilliant model for the project”
“Very good day — enjoyed the workshops and meeting new people-the young people running the workshops did a really good job at getting me to think about new ways of encouraging participation in young people in our Care”
