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