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Matt Smith
Project Lead
Project Leads manage the project, staff and build relationships with partners
Matt is a JNC qualified Youth Worker and has managed Youth Services for a number of years. He has worked in Children & Families service for 19 years. Matt has an MA in Health & Community Development and is trained as a PRINCE2 Project Manager. He has a passion for working with young people and supporting them to be the best they can be. He is innovative and creative with a desire to help young people solve their own problems. Matt believes that with good relationship building, time and dedication anything is possible.
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500 young people living in their own homes
500 young people leaving care from LHPs across the UK have been supported to move into their first home and are living 'connected and fulfilling’ lives. It may have taken 7 years to support the first 500 young people into their first home, but we are expecting the next 500 young people to move in to their own homes by August 2026!
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Staff experiences of working with unaccompanied asylum seeking young people
Staff experiences of working with unaccompanied asylum seeking young people within a trauma-informed framework at the National House Project: An Exploratory Qualitative Study. This small-scale study was carried out by Royal Hollaway University between November 2023 and January 2024. Semi-structured interviews with ten staff members from NHP and LHP’s were undertaken and explored their experiences of using a trauma informed practice framework to support asylum seeking young people.
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CLNM Conference 2024 - Developing Direction
On Thursday 14 November, the House Project community of young people, colleagues, and partners from across the UK gathered at the Mercure Hotel in Manchester for the annual Care Leavers National Movement (CLNM) Conference, ‘Developing Direction.’
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