Impact Bond: Care Leavers Social Impact Bond: Reboot West (Bristol)
Stage of development: Complete
Policy sector: Child and family welfare
Intervention: The project will offer support for care leavers into education, employment or training. The service will include some co-production with young people who will also participate in governance and steering arrangements to ensure services are meaningful and impact is maximised. This will include specific interest groups and responses where appropriate, for example linking with parenting programmes and our care leaver young parents group or asylum seeking group. The programme will deliver co-located staff focussed on working with our young people and the team around them. Adjustments will be made to tailor the programme to individual and specific need, aspirations and ability. It will utilise a psychologically informed approach to support young people to overcome adversity and support the achievement of EET outcomes. Services provided through this funding award will be in addition to existing statutory and other support services for care leavers. It will work in an integrated, holistic and psychologically informed way to help more care leavers to successfully gain qualifications, complete the training and education courses of their choosing and enter/sustain employment.
Date outcomes contract signed: 2018-08
Start of service provision: 2018-10
Actual end of service provision: 2022-03
Maximum potential outcome payment: 2250000 GBP
Target population: Young people who have moved on from their foster or other care placement aged between 16 and 25 years (who are NEET or at risk of NEET) and to whom the local authority owes a range of duties under the Children Act 1989 (as amended by the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000) and Children and Social Work Act 2017. The full cohort of care leavers must be identified in Year 1 (2018-19) – there will be no exclusions, with all care leavers who are NEET or at risk of NEET eligible for services. Furthermore, the approach is designed to reach and support those young people furthest from the labour market and to help deliver a supported pathway to employment.
Targeted number of service users or beneficiaries: 200
Targeted unit type: Individual
Actual number of service users or beneficiaries engaged: 241