Floating Support
A holistic and personalised service set up to stabilise and continue to support the care leavers to ensure they uphold a tenancy at their own properties.
This service is available to care leavers who have resided within semi-independent provisions and who are familiar with support and relationships through the key-working process.
We utilise our experience in providing and offering continuous support around employment and/or training. Our focus is to prevent the breakdown of care leaver’s independence in their new environments.
Our Support & Guidance
Our young people are generally responsible for themselves and our role is to support them and provide them with guidance in accessing and planning for services that are relevant to their needs and aspiration. As we prepare young people’s for independence, our staff also work with them providing support with building basic life skills and knowledge that they’ll need in order to be able to live fully independently. Our support will include:
- Cooking and general household duties
- Applying for housing benefits
- Bill payments, banking, savings and money management
- Education, training or employment.
- Building and maintaining positive peer relationships
- Healthy relationships and safe sexual health.
- Planning ahead, being prepared and organised
- Registering with local health services
- Routines and boundaries
- Support with emotional, mental health, family contact, religious and cultural needs / preferences.
- Safety and self-harm reduction
- Socialising and community integrationManaging emergencies,
- Obtaining independent accommodation and accessing a tenancy
- Joining the housing register and support with bidding for council properties.
