Title: Creating & Maintaining Partnerships to Hear the Care Leavers Voice
Summary
• Focus ‘community’ of looked after children in east London
• Historical offer
• Building relationships in the community
• The challenge of embedding and Buttle UK
• Next steps
Background: Aimhigher
• The debate around a discrete offer
• The offer
• Target boroughs and their selection
• The challenge of engaging – the usual routes
• Variability across boroughs – structures & appetite
HE contribution to the community
• Profile of UEL a natural progression
• Creating internal structures– Moving on from pre-entry– Committee (proactive & joined up)– Departmental champions, senior leader
• Practical changes– Finance – Information and timing of decision making
Sustainability post Aimhigher: the legacy• Buttle UK as an internal platform
• Greater London Authority as a broker
• OFFA agreement and WPSA
• East London Care Leavers Strategy Group– Current, stakeholders (incl care leavers voice)– Coherent offer– Data– Profile of education with care professionals
The Future
• Volatility of environment – Priority and current
• More out of what we’ve got– Mentoring scheme
• Impact of policy– Leave to remain– Fees