‘You can literally change a young person’s life’: an 18-year-old’s message for social workers

For the latest episode of CC Inform’s podcast, Learn on the Go, we spoke to 18-year-old Dan about his experiences as a young person placed in children’s homes and semi-independent accommodation.He shares his perspective on how social workers and services worked with him from his early teenage years, and what he would have liked to be different. He discusses how the system could be more genuinely ‘ambitious for children in care’, and the types of support that would have ma