The three-year Speaking Up; Leading Out project is supporting children and young people aged 8-25 years in care, care leavers and foster/kinship families in the NHSCT, WHSCT, SEHSCT & BHSCT areas. It will build their skills and confidence, improve emotional health and wellbeing, help them get involved in the decisions made about their care and support them to influence decision makers so their views shape the care system of the future. They will also produce a resource for schools on young people in care.