CYP Now - Praise for project supporting care leavers to live independently

An initiative offering care leavers intensive support to move into new homes successfully prepares them for independent living, a new evaluation has found.

Many care leavers told researchers they were optimistic about living alone. Picture: Adobe Stock

Emotional advice, peer support and practical help on living independently are offered to care leavers who access the House Project.

The project is run by the charity National House Project, which supports care leavers in Islington, Oxfordshire, Doncaster, Rotherham, Stoke, Wolverhampton, Midlothian, Fife and East Dunbartonshire.

More than half (53 per cent) of those offered this targeted support successfully moved into new homes, the evaluation found.

“There was little unexpected movement and no evidence of evictions or homelessness, suggesting stability in the early months post-care,” added the evaluation, by academics at the University of York.

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