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Helen Costa Lee Pardy McLaughlin
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Why VR ? The Case for A Different
Approach
3 times more
likely to be NEET
5 x more likely to be excluded
from school
25% of rough
sleepers in London
have been in care
65% of children in
Young Offenders institutes
have been in care
More likely to be a teenage
mum and have children removed into
care
Care leavers have worse
health outcomes
across a range of measures
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Local Authority as Corporate Parent: The Children and Social Work Act 2017
• Defined for the first time in law the responsibility of corporate parents to ensure, as far as possible, secure, nurturing and positive experiences for looked-after children and young people, and care leavers
• act in the best interests, and promote the physical and mental health and wellbeing, of those children and young people
• encourage them to express their views, wishes and feelings, and take them into account, while promoting high aspirations and trying to secure the best outcomes for them
• make sure they have access to services
• make sure that they are safe, with stable home lives, relationships and education or work
• prepare them for adulthood and independent living
• As corporate parents, it’s every councillor’s responsibility to make sure that the council ismeeting these duties towards children in care and care leavers.
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How Good A Corporate Parent Are You ? OR…
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Fostering & Adoption: common areas for improvement
Acute shortage of in-house carers, costly IFA placements, unable to actively “match”
Preparation of foster carers and adopters to meet increasingly complex needs
Support to placements struggling
Prevention – working with birth parents
Sufficiently skilled permanent workforce
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Focus on fixing the adults and professionals
whilst accepting the
child
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Commercial Confidential7
Behaviour change is difficult and takes time … but first you need the motivation to change
How can we stay
connected with our
children when their
experience is so far
removed from our own
?
How to maintain
desired behaviours
“in the moment” ?
How do we
accelerate or
Change behaviour
?
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“”You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” …Harper Lee
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The Cornerstone VR Library: revealing & healing childhood trauma
Recruitment/Introduction to Adoption and Fostering Abuse and Child Development in utero
A look at trauma, abuse and neglect in the early years
Children with early life trauma and school Children with early life trauma at home
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Commercial Confidential 10
In their shoes….
Virtual Reality To Help Adoptive Parents
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Early Impact
Foster Carer Recruitment
87% Increase in enquiries from events
Improving Placement Stability
100% success rate in 1:1 use
Group Training
“I will be able to connect more with our son; address
the feelings not the behaviour.”
Better Decision Making
72% of Judges will think differently as a result
Improving Access to Support Services
48 hrs from referral to appointment
Behaviour Change in Teachers
“really powerful and meaningful and it re-invigorates me with
why I became a teacher”
Accelerated learning & rapid impact
6 minutes to change behaviour vs 3 yrs
“GROUNDBREAKING”
“ REVOLUTIONARY”
“TRANSFORMATIVE”
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Field Experience with VR
The Vision for VR as Transformation Tool
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A Vision for Service Transformation
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Social Worker Recruitment using VR
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The possibilities…
professional training & CPD Real life simulation
Contact
Therapy
Support
Making use of the medium:
Birth parent early interventions
CSE awareness training
To provide the benefit
of hindsight
Life story work
When empathy
and acceptance is the goal:
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And Across Other Social Policy Challenges and In Combination with other Tech
Crime and antisocial behaviour
De-radicalisation
Climate change
Public health
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Thank You