How can Advocacy help careleavers?

Here are some of the things YAP has supported careleavers with:

• Get a laptop
• Change accommodation
• Access their ‘Setting up allowance’
• Change social worker
• Receive the correct financial payments
• Access their records
• Move from independent living back to their Foster Carers

We can’t guarantee that you will always get what you ask for but we can make sure that the right people will hear about what you want.

Advocacy might increase your chance of successfully challenging a decision that has been made about you especially where policy and procedures have not been followed correctly.