Your help and support offer
Section 1 - Our support to you
When you live in our care the Trust and other key agencies are what is known as your ‘corporate parent’.
Corporate parenting is our collective responsibility to make sure that children and young people are provided with every opportunity to lead fulfilling lives, in the same way that any good parent would do for their child. We are also responsible for helping and supporting you after you have left our care. You can find out more about corporate parenting using the link below.
GO TO CORPORATE PARENTING PAGE
We understand leaving our care is a time of big changes in your life. You will have lots of questions about the support you can get and what services are available to help you.
We want you to leave our care at a time that is right for you.
We will start to discuss this with you and other people who are important to you around your 16th birthday. That doesn’t mean you’re ready to leave our care, just that we want to really understand your views. You may be really settled where you live and want to stay on beyond your 18th birthday. You may already be thinking about what help and support you are entitled to and want to talk about that.
Just because you are leaving our care, we don’t stop caring about you. We want to make sure you feel safe and supported and know where to go for advice and help.
This is called our ‘offer’ to you and sometimes also known as ‘the local offer’.
Put simply we will help you with:
- Your money
- Where you live
- Your education, employment, training, and activities
- Living healthily
- And lots of other practical support too
All the information you need is in this document and on the Trust’s website in the Care Leavers zone via the link below.
There are lots of national organisations campaigning for better services for young people who have been in care. They run national consultation events, to hear your views. General advice regarding care leavers’ entitlements can be found below.
Birmingham care leavers helped us to design our offer and we will continue to listen to your views to make sure that the services we offer are what you need.