The challenge
The green paper on looked-after young people, Care Matters, highlights the need for care-leavers to have a say in developing support services for their peers.
Empowerment is one of the main themes of What Makes the Difference, a multi-agency partnership to improve outcomes for looked-after young people, led by youth charity Rainer. It identified peer mentoring as potentially valuable for young people leaving care. But how can this be most effective within local authority leaving care services?
The solution
Rainer invited local authorities to pilot a two-year peer mentoring scheme for care-leavers and nine authorities signed up - Brighton and Hove, Stockton, Gloucestershire, Surrey, Blackburn, Wandsworth, Tower Hamlets, Bath and North East Somerset, and West Berkshire. Rainer applied for funding in January 2005 and the project started in July.
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