Our Local Offer
Summary
| What we offer | Age range | What you need to know and who is responsible |
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| Support and advice from the Learning Care service | Up to 25 |
You can access support from the Leaving Care service until your 25th birthday. |
| Allocation of personal adviser | Up to 21 |
We will try to make sure that you keep the same personal adviser, but this isn’t always possible |
| 21-25 |
A personal advisor is allocated based upon your individual needs following a post 21 assessment. Access to the drop-in service and advice line will remain available until 25 for support, advice and guidance. |
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A pathway assessment |
16-18 |
Your Social Worker will complete this and this will take place no later than 3 months after your 16th birthday or 3 months after you become looked after. |
| Post 21 assessment | 21-25 |
You can access the service for help and support from 21 to 25 and we will undertake an assessment with you to establish how best we can provide you with the support that you need. |
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Your pathway plan - we will prepare a pathway plan with you that sets out how we will help you to achieve the things you want to. We will review the plan at least every 6 months with you and we will always involve you in developing your plan. |
16-20 |
We will encourage you to actively participate in your plan so that we are able to support you with your hopes and aspirations. You will receive a copy of the of the pathway plan and of each reviewed pathway plans thereafter. |
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21-25 |
If you are still allocated a personal adviser post 21 a pathway plan will be completed alongside you based upon your individual need. |
| Participate in your review meetings and support you as you make the journey to adulthood. | 16-20 | Your personal adviser will help you to develop the necessary skills and knowledge to successfully move into adulthood. |
| 21-25 |
The Leaving Care service will support and offer advice where appropriate. |
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Support and guidance in accessing other forms of support and specialist advice |
16-25 |
Your personal advisor will help you to make contact with other community-based resources and activities |
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Regular visits to see you and keep in touch |
16-20 |
We will have face to face contact with you every 8 weeks. This can be more frequent if needed. We will use other forms of communication in between our visits, such as telephone calls, emails and instant messages. |
| 21-25 |
Once you turn 21 if you are not allocated to a PA you can access the service through our regular drop-ins and advice line. If you are not in touch with us, we will write to you every year to remind you that you can still contact us if you need to. If you are under 25 and would like to utilise our offer of support, you can contact the Leaving Care team directly. |