Issue - meetings

Child Safeguarding

 

 

Meeting: 25/01/2018 - Corporate Parenting Advisory Committee (Item 55)

55 Level 3 and Access Courses for Care Leavers and Benefit Implications pdf icon PDF 131 KB

Minutes:

RECEIVED a report presented by the AD Safeguarding and Social Care, Sarah Alexander, which set out the mechanisms in place to support care leavers who wished to remain in education or training.

 

 NOTED in response to the discussion:

  • There were a number of care leavers who returned to the service for support after the age of 21, which placed further financial pressures on the YAS to fund subsistence living costs and cover rent costs in order to support them in completing their courses.
  • The Committee agreed that the information contained in the report would be used to help draft a letter to the Minister, emphasising that the gap in benefits for care leavers is making provision of adequate support difficult. (Action: Sarah Alexander).