Mind Of My Own
Digital participation tools for children’s services
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Personal health
- Communication
- Mental health
- SaaS
- Social Impact
- Wellbeing
- Accessibility
- Mayfair, London, UK
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Company mission
To help every child to have a strong voice and be able to safeguard their wellbeing.
Our take
Mind Of My Own has developed an app-led suite of products modernising the processes and systems used to gather the views of children using children’s services
Resources at organisations offering children’s services aren’t in limitless supply. Schools, healthcare, and social care settings are all seeing squeezed budgets, and the knock-on effects of this for young people can be hugely damaging. So it’s crucial that time and money is wisely spent - the only issue, historically, has been that the young people have been left largely out of the conversation
That’s an issue Mind Of My Own is trying to solve. The company works with young people to produce digital participation tools that help them communicate their lived experience to the professionals who provide education or care for them. The idea is to offer children as young as two years old, including those with additional needs, the ability to communicate their needs and feelings in whatever form they see fit, at any time. Professionals can then aggregate these results on a complementary analytics platform
The hope is that this will help schools and care settings allocate resources better, and potentially make substantial savings (both financial, and in terms of children’s wellbeing) through early prevention. The apps are used in over a third of local authorities in the UK
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Benefits
- 25 days holiday (+3 after 3 years of employment)
- Pension package after 3 months
- Flexible working arrangements (flexi-time and location)
- Individual training allowance available
- In-house learning and development programme
- Time off for training and development
- We actively promote the five ways to wellbeing
Funding (1 round)
May 2014
$0.2m
GRANT
Total funding: $0.2m
Leadership
Yvonne Anderson
(Director)Previously served as National Director of Children's Mental Health at the Health and Social Care Advisory Service. Set up Cernis and Sixteen25 - both companies looking at improving care for children and young people.
Jill Thorburn
(Director )Jill has over 25 years experience in social work leadership and management in all areas of children’s services and has always worked to develop revolutionary technology to improve practice.