To address this, a charity has been trialling a new approach to supporting care-experienced young people that takes its origins from a model that enables adults with learning disabilities to live alongside carers in their home.
Called Shared Lives, the approach provides support and accommodation built on relationships and connections that young people have in their local community.
For the last 10 months, Shared Lives Plus, the membership organisation for Shared Lives schemes and Shared Lives carers, has been running a Care Leavers programme to grow the model for care leavers, recognising that there are long standing challenges with good transitions and a well-publicised “cliff edge” at 18 for many young people. Many schemes are registered to support people from 16, allowing for a flexible transition at a time that best suits the individual.
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