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NYAS (National Youth Advocacy Service)
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NYAS (National Youth Advocacy Service) is a children's charity that supports and empowers care-experienced children and young people.
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It’s #TickTheBox week!✅ From 17–23 Nov we’re joining The Fostering Network to highlight why care experienced students should tick the box on their UCAS forms so they can access vital support🎓
https://www.nyas.net/about-us/news/tickthebox-this-care-leavers-month!
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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For some children, Christmas doesn’t bring happy memories.

Support our #ChristmasChallenge 2-9 December when your donation will be DOUBLED!
A fun family photo of a man and two children playing and smiling with a decorated Christmas tree in a cozy living room with the text "I'd double the time I feel safe each day".
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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When you donate to our #ChristmasChallenge 2-9 December, your gift is matched thanks to pledgers and our Big Give Champion, The Monday Charitable Trust.
Pie chart showing a £50 donation with an additional £25 matched by our pledgers and another £25 matched by our Big Give Champion The Monday Charitable Trust.
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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November is #NationalCareLeaversMonth and we have two amazing schemes directly helping care leavers:

👭Side By Side
💸The Knapman Fund

Find out more! #NCLM
https://www.nyas.net/get-support/young-people/side-by-side/
https://www.nyas.net/get-support/young-people/knapman-fund/
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November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Book for our first 'Care Conversations' webinar with Gold Medalist Morgan Bolding who will share his powerful journey from care to Olympic glory.

📅 Thurs 4 Dec
⏰ 11am - 12pm

https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/9985a239-e852-419e-9fc3-276729d88c4d@a1cc21e9-6b0f-40ee-86bd-3bbb863aeb51
Morgan Bolding Olympic gold rower mid-row on sunny waters showing arm muscles.
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Hot off the press our monthly newsletter is out! Read it here: https://mailchi.mp/nyas/news-nov
And sign up to receive future issues here: https://nyas.beaconforms.com/form/66eea761
#NCLM #CareLeavers #ChildrenInCare
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November 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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It’s official, 4 weeks to go until the Big Give Christmas Challenge, we're so excited! Save the date!
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November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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November is National Care Leavers Month! A time to celebrate care-experienced individuals & their achievements 🎉& to call for positive change 📣

Read our latest blog by our CEO Rita Waters: https://ow.ly/o11T50XlI3W

#NCLM
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November 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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NYAS responds to announcements made in yesterday's Spring Statement.
Statement reads: The impact of yesterday’s Spring Statement, and the welfare cuts that it heralds right across the UK, is hard to accept, or to fathom. At NYAS we have welcomed UK Government commitments to a new child poverty strategy, just as we have welcomed their new ’corporate parenting’ duty on all government departments to give special regard and added support to children in and leaving care. Yet it’s hard to see those important promises reflected in cuts to benefits that the government’s own calculations say will see poverty levels rise even higher. The withdrawal of entitlement to PIP (health top up on Universal Credit) for disabled young people under 22 has been given no rationale as a policy except for cost savings. No reflection on the real lives and needs of the young adults who will face isolation and profound hardship without it, at precisely the point in their transition to adulthood when they will need it most. No reflection of any ‘corporate parenting’ principle towards those in that age group who are also facing the huge challenge of leaving care at 18. But the impact will be wider still. The message this announcement sends to all children and families living on benefits, especially those with disabilities, is that they cost more than we can afford as a country. At NYAS we believe the opposite – our country cannot afford more poverty and destitution. One child in poverty is one too many. One homeless young person is one too many. We urge the government to listen to the outcry and think again. Listening to the voices of children, young people and everyone most directly affected by government decisions is exactly what our charity is here for – and we find every day that when we listen, we learn. There could be no better time to show that government is listening than now.
March 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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96% of babies with care-experienced mothers in Project Unity were placed under child protection before birth.👶🏼

Past care-experience often affects views on the ability to parent.⚖️

NYAS Cymru calls on @welshgovernment.bsky.social to review and improve referral processes.🔍#TrustUsToCare
March 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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NYAS Cymru calls on @welshgovernment.bsky.social to set up an ‘active offer’ of support from Project Unity for care-experienced young women once a pregnancy is noted.🤰🏻

This provides earlier support, improving outcomes before legal proceedings.⚖️

Guidance for LAs is needed. #TrustUsToCare
March 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Data Collection!

Our first #TrustUsToCare recommendation urges @welshgovernment.bsky.social to publish annual data on care-experienced young women and child protection.👶🏼

To support them we must track how many have children and enter care.📢

Local authorities should report on this yearly.
March 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Ahead of #InternationalWomensDay, we’re celebrating the vital work of Project Unity & Trust Us To Care in supporting young mothers across Wales.✨

A huge thank you to @welshgovernment.bsky.social for funding the project —giving young mums the support they deserve.

More content incoming.👀
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March 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM