Foster Focus is the triple award winning social enterprise that creates youth participation strategies for children’s services. Our mission is to provide young people who have experienced care a platform to share their experiences, views and voices about how children’s services can be shaped and work better to improve the life chances of children in care and those leaving care. We value young peoples opinions and wishes and empower young people to achieve beyond their expectations. The Shackleton Leadership Award will be used to create a number of inspirational videos that highlight and raise awareness around the subject of care leavers and children in care. The vision is to create media that is aimed at raising aspirations through sharing stories of successful care leavers, providing children who have experienced care a real life example of achievement and role models that they can aspire to. I believe through showing these young people that they can go beyond the stereotypes and statistics, it will inspire and motivate them to take control of their own lives and they too can achieve anything they set out to do.

Award Date: November 2015