An evaluation of the DfE Innovation Programme highlights children’s charity the St Christopher’s Fellowship’s Staying Close programme’s “genuine desire to allow young people to gain autonomy and its ability to actively engage young people in decision making”.
The Staying Close model works within four children’s homes in the London boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow to support young people transitioning from care to independence. Young people co-produce plans with professionals on what they need to support their transition including life skills sessions, trialling move-on accommodation and regular contact with people they care about.
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