On the 16th February 2022, the Life Changes Trust Young People with Care Experience programme held its final legacy event.

It was a celebration - a time for reflection and a time to look to the future.

Over the years, the Life Changes Trust has built solid foundations to support young people with care experience to flourish, to become advocates and activists, to have their voices heard, and to play a primary role in improving the future for other young people, for generations to come. Alongside those young people have been individuals and organisations who have supported and walked beside them, encouraged them, listened to them and ensured they had agency to make positive change.

During the webinar, we talked about ‘Pursuing Equality and Inclusion’.

The Life Changes Trust has always looked for ways to include the voices which are easily silenced, so for example, young people affected by disabilities, young people within the youth justice system or those looked after at home.

These 'easily silenced' voices have the same rights as other young people – the right to have their voices heard, to be central in making decisions about their own lives and to be included in a way that many of us take for granted.

We showed a short film from Aberlour, where Ruth Harvey explained their Rights and Participation project, and we met Robert, a young man who is involved in the project.

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