Top 10 Tips - Preparing Care Leavers

This packed guide, aimed at leaving care professionals and carers, crams into 10 short sections the essential elements of preparing care leavers for adult life. Top 10 Tips moves rapidly through practical issues like housing and benefits and softer but equally important matters, including aspiration, identity and relationships. Each chapter covers basics plus ideas and pointers for further thinking and research.

Bond acknowledges that there is far too much that needs to be known and to be done for leaving care workers to do it all by themselves. It encourages readers to make professional alliances, influence local policy and generally pull people together to work for the benefit of care leavers. As such, it is a very empowering and enabling book for adults - it sets out a potentially overwhelming agenda and reassures the leaving care worker that they do not have to do all of this alone. This means it reinforces the message care leaving workers are encouraged to take to their care leavers and makes it all seem possible.