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Who is the database for? Teachers, Youth Workers, Housing Support Workers, Policy / Decision Makers, Development Workers, and Young People. |
Leaving Care: Here are some of our favourite resources for young
people leaving care and those who are helping them in that process. Do you
have more suggestions for us? Please let us know.
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| Moving Towards Independance - The Carers Guide |
| First published 2005, Scottish Council for Single Homeless |
| Cost: £2.00 |
| Description This is a new booklet designed for foster carers, residential workers and anyone caring for a young person moving towards independence. The booklet can be used as both a reference book for housing information and as a practical tool for helping young people and their carers talk about the process of moving on from care and all that this involves. |
| Usage Foster carers, residential workers and anyone caring for a young person moving towards independence |
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Printed |
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Practical Information |
| Last Updated |
13th Nov 2007 |
Weblink |
www.scsh.org.uk/publications/Carers_guide.htm |
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| How Good is Your Throughcare & Aftercare Service |
| First published 2006, Scottish Throughcare & Aftercare Forum |
| Cost: £2 (sample copy free) or free download |
| Description A tool to promote and develop best practice when supporting young people who have been looked after. The publication stemmed from the outcomes of nine Work Groups at the Forum’s Annual Conference in December 2005 and from feedback during widespread consultation.
The document identifies nine key areas of practice and provides key principles and detailed checklist to allow all the different agencies involved in supporting young people leaving care to assess and improve their current practice. |
| Usage It is aimed at service providers, practitioners, carers and policy makers across the range of relevant services and agencies. Young adults who have been looked after should also know about this publication, so that they are aware of the levels of support they should receive. |
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Printed |
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Practice and Techniques |
| Last Updated |
20th Oct 2006 |
Weblink |
www.scottishthroughcare.org.uk |
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| Supporting Young People Leaving Care in Scotland |
| First published 2004, Scottish Executive |
| Cost: Free |
| Description This report looks at regulations and guidance on services for young people ceasing to be looked after by local authorities. It provides a guide to services on supporting young people leaving care in Scotland. |
| Usage Workers of young people's services |
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Printed |
Type |
Background Information |
| Last Updated |
6th Jun 2005 |
Weblink |
www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/education/syplc-00.asp |
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| Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum |
| First published ----, |
| Cost: n/a |
| Description The Scottish Throughcare & Aftercare Forum aims to improve support for young people leaving care by influencing the development of national policies and local support services. The forum promotes information sharing and discussion on a variety of issues that impact on young people who have been looked after and for those providing throughcare & aftercare support. |
| Usage Policy makers |
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Website |
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Background Information |
| Last Updated |
6th Jun 2005 |
Weblink |
www.scottishthroughcare.org.uk |
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| Streets Ahead |
| First published 2002, Scottish Council for Single Homeless |
| Cost: £6.00 + £1.50 p&p |
| Description The national guide to leaving home and housing for young people in Scotland. 23 individual booklets, each tackling a different aspect of leaving home, presented in CD storage case. Written and design for young people and in consultation with young people. Discounts available for large orders. Local Directory production services also available. Training available. More than 40,000 distributed since launch in 2003. |
| Usage Schools, young people thinking about leaving home, care leavers preparing to move on, young tenants, homeless young people |
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Printed |
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Practical Information |
| Last Updated |
20th Oct 2006 |
Weblink |
www.scsh.org.uk |
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| My Space My Place (Tenancy Sustainment Resource) |
| First published 2005, Scottish Council for Single Homeless |
| Cost: £12.50 |
Description My Space, My Place is a new resource aimed at helping young people to sustain their tenancies. A series of themed magazine cover a range of tenancy issues. Cartoons and illustrations are used throughout and all the magazines have been extensively tested with young people to make sure they are accessible and informative.
The My Space My Place resource won the UK Housing Award for Outstanding Achievement in Social Housing for Scotland in November 2006. |
| Usage Young tenants, young people preparing for a tenancy, housing support workers |
| Format |
Printed |
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Practical Information |
| Last Updated |
4th Dec 2006 |
Weblink |
www.scsh.org.uk/Youth/TSR.htm |
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| Independent Living Skills Information Pack and Facilitators Pack |
| First published 2005, Project 101 |
| Cost: |
| Description A pack providing independent living skills for young people who have their own tenancy or awaiting to be allocated a tenancy. A facilitators pack for workers can also be purchased to use with the young people. |
Usage Pack for young people aged 16-25.
Facilitators pack for workers working with the young people. |
| Format |
Printed |
Type |
Session Plans etc. (for Youth Work) |
| Last Updated |
20th Feb 2006 |
Weblink |
www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk |
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| Filo-fax |
| First published 2004, The Big Step (Glasgow) |
| Cost: Unknown |
| Description A filo-fax presenting information about tenancy issues to young people such as health, healthy eating, money, moving out, rights and so on. The filo-fax presents the information in an accessible format with a year planner and section for useful contacts. It has been clearly designed with young people who are leaving care in mind. |
| Usage Young people moving into their own tenancy |
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Printed |
Type |
Practical Information |
| Last Updated |
6th Jun 2005 |
Weblink |
www.thebigstep.org.uk |
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 The Practice Bites Database allows you to search through a range of youth housing and support projects and includes brief examples (bites) of innovative practice which could easily be replicated by other projects. Click here to search the Practice Bites Database.
'Development of the site was made possible by funding from HomePoint'.
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