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Applications now open! 🚨 - MEAL Manager Join Lumos and lead transformative Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) for our care reform portfolio. As MEAL Manager, based out of our London UK office, you’ll provide strategic direction, innovate our MEAL framework, and drive evidence-based decision-making. Develop results frameworks, oversee data quality and reporting, and integrate MEAL into programme design and donor proposals to create maximum impact for our partners and those we support. As a dynamic, technical leader, you will also collaborate with senior teams, influence strategy, and enhance organisational learning. If you want to shape impactful change to better the lives of children, then apply today! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ezU3hb4a Applications close 8th October 2025. #MEAL #NonProfit #Impact #NowHiring

“Through the support from Lumos Foundation, a costed roadmap has been developed to reintegrate close to 13,000 children [living] within residential care.” -Carren Agengo, Principal Secretary, State Department for Children Services at the Ministry for Gender, Culture and Children Services.

A very warm welcome to Sophie Bridge, Zahed Kamathia and Keith Schilling to the Lumos Foundation Board, bringing new expertise, insights and networks. Very much looking forward to working with you and Board colleagues to deliver on our ambition for children in the coming years!

This morning, Lumos was proud to co-host a reflection and learning session with the Kenyan Ministry of Gender, Culture, and Children Services on the implementation of holistic, systemic care reform. This event was an opportunity for reflection following the completion of a pilot care reform programme in the Rift Valley region of Kenya, to provide attendees with an overview of the methods used to implement sustainable care reform, and to discuss the financing of continued work on care reform in Rift Valley and throughout Kenya. During the session, stakeholders committed to scaling up the work done in Rift Valley into other regions of the country, taking on lessons learned from the implementation process. Two key documents, the Costed Regional Roadmap to Care Reform and the Case Management Process Plan, were also launched as part of this event. Lumos would like to thank the Cabinet Secretary for Gender, Culture, and Children Services, Ms. Hanna Wendot Cheptumo, and the Principal Secretary, Carren Agengo, for their presence at the meeting, as well as all other presenters from the session.  We are excited to see how the successes seen in Rift Valley can be replicated across Kenya to ensure that all children in the country are able to grow up and thrive in family-based care. UNICEF SOS Children's Villages Kenya Hope and Homes for Children

Lumos is delighted to announce the addition of three new members to our Board of Trustees. Zahed Kamathia has been appointed as Trustee while leading a global approach to skills, learning, and culture as Chief Talent Officer at the LEGO Group. Keith Schilling joins as a Trustee, having founded Schillings International LLP, a ground-breaking multidisciplinary practice that combines expertise in law, intelligence, communications, security and diplomacy. Sophie Bridge assumes the role of Treasurer, bringing over 30 years of experience in financial services, including as a COO for global investment banks Barclays and Credit Suisse/UBS. We look forward to welcoming their expertise, passion and shared commitment to our vision—that all children grow up in safe and loving families within supported communities. https://lnkd.in/eFYK46Jv

Children and young people aren't just at the heart of our mission—they directly shape our work around the world. With an introduction by J.K. Rowling, see how children can influence and drive global change on issues that impact them with our Head of Child & Youth Participation. More information ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d9e_fCV

Congratulations and thank you to UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office for your leadership on the Global Charter on Children’s Care Reform. There was tangible energy in the room when the Charter was launched in New York this week, with commitments from 30 governments and powerful messages including from those with lived experience of care, from David Lammy, and from UNICEF Executive Director Cathy Russell. Our shared vision of a world in which every child grows up in a safe and loving family is within our grasp. The Charter propels us forward together. We now need to provide support where it is needed and catalyse more governments to join the growing movement. Lumos | David Bailey | Family for Every Child | Hope and Homes for Children | Save the Children UK | Better Care Network | Maestral International |Krish Kandiah

Every child has the right to a safe and loving family. But an estimated 5.4 million children around the world are living in harmful institutions. If we are to see an end to this practice, we must all unite around the mission to realise every child’s right to a family. This is why Lumos is pleased to endorse the new Global Charter on Care Reform for Children, led by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and initiated by the UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy when he was Foreign Secretary. The Charter, launched yesterday in New York during UNGA 80 with Lumos CEO Howard Taylor in attendance, brings welcome focus and attention to this urgent issue. By signing the Charter, governments demonstrate that they are committed to a collective global effort to ensure that every child, everywhere, grows up in a family. It is also a first step: we then hope to see Governments use the Charter as a springboard to make tangible commitments that enable adequate investment in preventing family separation, providing alternative family care and ending institutionalisation. There must also be a strong focus on leaving no child behind when developing these commitments - notably children with disabilities, who are at a heightened risk of institutionalisation and face a greater likelihood of abuse or neglect once there. Now, we call on all governments to formally join this movement and stand alongside other global leaders by signing the Charter. Civil society organisations should also consider showing their support for the Charter so, together, we can turn the tide on how we care for children globally. Find out more about the Charter, and how governments can reaffirm or contribute their pledges: https://lnkd.in/eMPrBNBP

Institutions are not a safe refuge for children. In fact, they expose children to risks including violence from peers, trafficking, neglect and more. With an introduction by J.K. Rowling, hear from our Lumos Senior Advocacy & Campaigns Adviser on how family solutions can provide a safe alternative in which children can thrive. More information ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d9e_fCV