The good news at RYS continues to come! We are delighted to share that we have had our unique and innovative capacity-building training recognised by the Frontline Innovation Award. Roseanna, the project lead and former Frontline Fellow has been shortlisted for their development of the “Journey with an Unaccompanied Child” (JUC from here) project. The award recognises innovation within social work that is helping to create social change for children and families who do not have a safe or stable home.

Roseanna is a qualified social worker who participated in the first cohort of the Frontline programme in 2014 and has, ever since, been working to support children and young people. Starting their journey with RYS in France, working with unaccompanied children in the informal settlements of Calais and Dunkirk, they then moved on to support RYS’ sister organisation in Athens, Velos Youth. Life brought Roseanna back to the UK in 2020, and a year later where they began to collaborate with RYS to create its first ever training offering; JUC.

The training is interactive and takes the participant through the real journeys of four unaccompanied children, from their countries of origin, through Europe, to the UK. JUC shares the expertise developed over the past seven years, and is the only training in the UK that covers in depth the journeys that children have made to get there. Designed for all individuals, organisations and communities that are welcoming and supporting unaccompanied children across the UK, in just one year we have trained over 450 people who collectively work directly with over 1200 children.

We are excited to continue working with Roseanna to roll-out the training across the UK. If you would like to learn more about Journey with an Unaccompanied Child or would like to reserve your place, click here.

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