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In 2010, the Department for Education produced the Children's Homes Challenge and Improvement Programme to help residential child care providers better prepare young people for independent living. It aimed to give a renewed focus on the important role care providers play in helping young people transition, and address concerns they were not being adequately taught life skills.
Break was ahead of the curve. The charity's transition service started in 2009, and by 2012 a more comprehensive Moving On team, incorporating a mentoring service, was established.
The Moving On team, which consists of two mentoring co-ordinators and four transition workers, provides support and advice for young people aged 16 to 18 living in one of Break's six children's homes or its dedicated transitions house, where they can stay for up to two years. Much of the team's work is spent in the community supporting care leavers, some of whom are in their mid-20s.
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