BBC Home Affairs correspondent Nick Beake travelled with his production crew to Spain recently to learn more about Diagrama's work in youth custodial centres.
Nick's feature appeared on Victoria Derbyshire Live (BBC2) as well as BBC2 national news and a special 10-minute feature on BBC London News. You can view the full film here.
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National News
03 Apr 2016
25 Feb 2016
Diagrama adopters David and Adam have written a new blog about their experience of becoming parents, to encourage more members of the LGBT community to consider fostering and adoption.Adoption’s a no brainer Read more...
17 Feb 2016
Diagrama Foundation has teamed up with support group New Family Social to offer dedicated services for prospective parents, foster carers and adopters from the LGBT community.People interested in adoption and fostering through Diagrama are now able to access New Family Social’s membership services for free – this entitles them to benefit from additional support, a dedicated helpline, networking events throughout the year and access to online forums. Read more...
21 Jan 2016
A Hampshire teenager is urging people to consider offering a loving home to children in care after revealing how being adopted transformed her own harrowing early years.Nicole, now 17, recalled terrifying memories of living with her drug addict parents in an essay for a GCSE project.She now wants to share her story to encourage more people to consider adoption. Read more...
17 Dec 2015
Members of the Standing Committee for Youth Justice have been learning how Diagrama’s youth custodial care model could transform the face of the juvenile justice system in the UK.Dr Di Hart was reporting back to the committee on the preliminary findings of her recent study into custodial care in Finland, Spain and the US – which included spending time experiencing Diagrama’s ground-breaking ‘re-education’ approach to rehabilitation of young offenders. Read more...
16 Feb 2015
Due to the important growth experienced by Diagrama Foundation, especially during the last year, the management team decided to move the head offices to Chatham. This change aims to be for the better, not only for the employees but also for the quality of service. Read more...
23 Dec 2014
It being the Christmas holidays, the youths of one of the Diagrama Foundation homes, together with their teachers, held a themed night focused on China. The night formed part of an annual programme run by Diagrama employees to bring together the diverse world cultures of the looked after children. Through this, equal rights and cultural diversity are promoted, and the opportunity to share knowledge and curiosities about life in other countries is given. Read more...
30 Sep 2014
The Chairman of Diagrama Foundation (UK) and Fundación Diagrama (Spain), Francisco Legaz, received this honour on its behalf from the Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz as an acknowledgement of the “important servicies” provided by the Foundation in the penitentiary field for over 23 years.Diagrama was acknowledge with the Silver Medal for its 23 years of work in this field, assisting convicts and exconvicts on their social, educational, health and employment needs. Read more...
30 Jul 2014
Between the 6 and the 11 of July, two boys cared for at one of Diagrama’s homes travelled to Lloret de Mar (Spain), where they carried out several tourist and cultural activities, as well as leisure and sport ones. This trip allowed them to leave their routine and develop new social skills in a new environment.During those days, they visited the village, getting to know the most emblematic places and interacting with the neighbours, which favoured their cultural enrichment by learning the local history and being in contact with a different language. Read more...
07 May 2014
For 3 nights the young people hosted various members of staff as well as other residents, with each night involving a different theme.Between the 23rd and 25th of May, the young people from one of Diagrama’s children’s homes recreated their own version of the show “Come Dine with Me.” This activity involved different people cooking dinner every night for various guests including members of staff as well as other young people. Adding a twist to the activity, the young people had a different theme for each night for which they had to dress accordingly. Read more...