The Commissioner has committed to the Corporate Parenting Charter, developed by the Welsh Government in collaboration with care-experienced young people. The Charter is a clear statement of organisations’ commitment to supporting children and young people who are in care or have experience of care.
As a Corporate Parent, we commit to the following when working with care-experienced children and young people:
- We will take time to listen to all care-experienced children and young people and ensure their views, wishes and feelings are heard and actively considered in all decisions made about them.
- We will treat all care-experienced children and young people with respect.
- We will involve all experienced children and young people in decisions that are made about them.
- We will keep all care experienced children and young people informed about our involvement with them and explain our actions to them.
- We will use straightforward language when we communicate with all care-experienced children and young people.
- We will show compassion when considering the needs of all care-experienced children and young people.
- We will work with all care-experienced children and young people to help them achieve their goals.
- We will advise all care-experienced children and young people of the process to make a complaint should they feel we are not adhering to this charter.
- We will advise all care-experienced children and young people that they have a right to access independent advocacy to make sure their views, wishes and feelings are heard during decisions being made or when they are unhappy and want something stopped, started or changed.
In addition, we have committed specifically to the following principles, and this is a summary of how we will put them into practice.