What we covered
Over 200 commissioners, NHS leads, DfE colleagues, MPs, academics and mentoring programme leads joined us live. This is the full recording — every slide, every data point, every question.
The national context
Why current models fail care-experienced young people, and the size of the gap.
Year 1: the honest picture
30% engagement, the reasons why, and what the data was actually telling us.
The three shifts
What changed in first contact, communication and ongoing support.
Wowment in depth
Live demo of the safeguarding-first WhatsApp engagement platform.
30% → 82% results
How Year 2 changed the picture, with the data behind it.
What this means for you
A replicable framework — not just for mentoring, for any organisation working with young people.
Q&A with the audience
Live questions from commissioners, MPs and frontline practitioners.
Care-experienced young people are often described as hard to engage. Our evidence suggests a different conclusion: many services are simply hard to engage with.
All findings are drawn from 13,800+ natural conversations between young people and their mentors across five local authorities — gathered without a single survey.
Thank you!
Fran will be in touch shortly.