With the care leaver’s bursary due to be increased to £3,000 from 1st August 2023 there has never been a better time to support care experienced young people into NHS careers and apprenticeships.
NHS England recently held a Recruiting & Retaining Care Experienced Young People webinar and the slides are now available for this webinar:
There are other useful resources also available:
- Care Leavers Guide – Amazing Apprenticeships
- Resources to support care leavers into apprenticeships – Learning and Work Institute
- Home – Care Leaver Covenant (mycovenant.org.uk)
- Care Leaver Covenant Overview
- Moving on up – Amazing Apprenticeships
- National Leaving Care Benchmarking Forum | Catch22 (catch-22.org.uk)
- Case Study: Louise Faircloth – apprenticeships and care experienced young people
- NHS Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard makes a commitment to support care leavers (youtube video)
- https://www.maryannehodd.co.uk/