New Support For Care Leavers Aged 18+
18+ EET worker – following on from the success of the virtual school EET worker, we have just appointed an EET worker to work with those Care Leavers who are 18+, linking PA’s and young people with the opportunities that are available. Due to commence in role on 2nd November – watch this space for more information.
New Wellbeing Support Is On The Way! Stressed Out Brain Training And Mentoring And Wellbeing Provision Secured
We have secured additional funds through our Greater Manchester ICB to progress with the Early Break Stressed out Brain Training.
We have also been successful in a GM Bid to progress with piloting a Care Leaver mentoring and psychological wellbeing service provision with Pure Insight - we were one of two areas chosen to do this. This is a 2 year programme – Mentoring and Psychological Wellbeing Services are both cited as a best practice example’s in the recent Independent Review of Childrens Social Care Independent review of children's Social Care: final report - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk):
“helping care leavers build a network” (page 194)
“Achieving better mental health outcomes for care leavers will form part of the National Children’s Social Care Framework, and best practice should build upon existing work done by organisations such as Pure Insight, which provide a psychological wellbeing service and counselling service to young people and care leavers.” (p221)