Women, Family & Children
In an unequal world, those who are working to help women and kids suffering trauma or neglect are an inspiration
81 Lisa Cherry
Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Ltd
Cherry (above) is an award-winning author, and director of Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Ltd. She assists schools and services to create systemic change in the way that we work with those experiencing trauma. She has been working in and around education and children’s services for more than 30 years, and combines academic knowledge with professional expertise and personal experience. Cherry recently completed her PhD on the intersection between exclusion and being a child in care, and the impact across their life. She consults with social workers, educators, probation workers and those in adult services, training and speaking to more than 30,000 people around the world.
ticservicesltd.com @_LisaCherry
82 Kinship
Kinship’s #ValueOurLove campaign fights for improved financial, practical and emotional support for kinship families (where a child is raised by a close family member/friend because their parents cannot care for them) in England. It seeks to equalise the help kinship families receive with that received by foster and adoptive families. #ValueOurLove led to England’s first-ever national kinship care strategy, published in December 2023, and has begun to address the key campaign calls to equalise: allowances between foster and kinship families; access to training and resources between kinship carers and foster carers; leave between foster and kinship families; and support between children in kinship care and those in care.
kinship.org.uk @kinshipcharity
83 Liv Eren, 19
End Child Poverty Coalition
YOUNG CHANGEMAKER
Liv Eren is a child poverty campaigner, first-generation student and youth worker with the End Child Poverty Coalition. They often appear in national media to help paint a realistic picture of child poverty today, and have spoken at multiple high-profile events, including at the Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming conference, and at the National Education Union. Their nominator said: “Hearing experiences of poverty directly from somebody’s mouth – as opposed to academic work – really helps illustrate the scale of the problem.”
endchildpoverty.org.uk
84 Make Birth Better
