As you start to think about living independently, you have the right to get support from us.
Care leaver's personal advisers
Your personal adviser will be allocated to you after you turn 16 years old.
Your personal adviser is there to support and work with you. Their role is to keep in touch with you to make sure you're doing well and getting the support you need.
They will:
- Make sure you have a safe, suitable place to live.
- Help you find work, training or carry on your education.
- Be there for you if you need advice
- Help to develop your pathway plan
Pathway plans for care leavers
When you live independently, you'll need to be able to do a lot of things for yourself. It's a good idea to find out now what you can do already and what you're going to need to practice.
Your personal adviser and social worker will give you advice and guidance to help prepare you for living independently. This will include a plan to help you move from care to independent life. This is called a Pathway Plan
Through the pathway plan, we'll work together to look at the different aspects of your life to help understand your individual needs and make sure that they are met both now and in the future.
What's included in your pathway plan
There are different areas that will be covered in your pathway plan, these include:
Helping care leavers to build relationships
Relationships are important to everyone. We can help you to build relationships with people who can support you.
We can:
- Put you in touch with a mentor from Rochdale Connections Trust. Find out more about Rochdale Connections Trust
- Help you to stay in touch or reconnect with people special to you. This could be someone like former foster carers, social workers or independent visitors.
- Help you to build and maintain healthy relationships with your friends and family.
- Reconnect you with your birth family, if that's what you want and it's in your best interests.
How to get support as a care leaver
To get our support you can:
- Get in touch with us using the contact details on this page
- Speak to your personal adviser or social worker