Care Experienced Young People and Care Leavers

Being care experienced means you will have spent time living with foster carers under local authority care, in residential care, looked after at home under a supervision order, or in kinship care with relatives or friends.

Resources

Guidance on applying to an undergraduate programme as a care experienced young person- by UCAS

Information, online networking and scholarships through This Is Us

Care experienced and care leaver's guide to apprenticeships

'Moving On Up' Network and resources

Care Experienced Students, UCAS – a helpful guide for applying to university.

Higher and Further Education, Become Charity – advice and guidance about your education.

Unite Foundation Scholarship, This is Us – a scholarship offered for care experienced and estranged students.

Handbook created by Estranged and Care Experienced Students – support and advice for further and higher education.

York and North Yorkshire Care Experienced Network

What is it?

The network was set up to provide a space in York & North Yorkshire for those who are actively engaged in working with or for care experienced young people to share best practice and discuss challenges/possible resolutions. As a collective voice, the network works together to disseminate evidence of effective regional practice to influence future policy and funding.

What are the objectives?

To meet virtually once a term to share current and future care experienced related practice
To devise and deliver collaborative initiatives that will meet the needs of care experienced young people in York & North Yorkshire
To enable the effective delivery of collaborative outreach activity to all young care experienced learners
To ensure any outreach activity is designed and delivered as a planned programme of interlocking interventions
To promote the work of the group through active encouragement and dissemination of individual and collaborative initiatives
To ensure educational progression opportunities, particularly to FE and HE are promoted and accessible to all care experienced young people
To use the network email list to share research projects and other related literature and opportunities

Want to join?

Membership is open to anyone actively engaged in working with or for care experienced young people in York & North Yorkshire.

Meetings are convened by the Inspiring Choices programme, who are responsible for chairing the meetings and circulating informal meeting notes.

To join the network contact Inspiring Choices – inspiringchoices@yorksj.ac.uk and you will be added to the mailing list.

Please find the flyer here.