This is the Local Offer for Care Leavers in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

What is the Local Offer to Care Leavers?

We believe that everyone in society has a responsibility to help those who have been in care to overcome the difficulties that they experienced
in their childhoods, so that they can lead successful lives.

More than anything else we recognise that the help and support that you receive from the local authority leaving care team (Learn 2 Live) is critical to whether you make the transition from care to independence successfully.

We take this responsibility very seriously. For our Looked After Children and Care Leavers we strive to be excellent Corporate Parents, having high aspirations for you and encouraging you to achieve your goals and potential. A good parent means keeping you safe and providing you with the best support to meet your individual needs. We can help you to access housing, education and training, work experience, health services and we are here to support you to make the most of leaving care.

Our professionals working with you share our high aspirations for you and make sure that all our looked after children and care leavers have all the opportunities we would give our own children through good access to high quality education, health and social care services.

This offer focuses on how we work across the partnership to meet your needs to achieve the best of outcomes. 

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