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Care leaver covenant
In July 2016, the Government published 'Keep on Caring' which aimed to support young people with care experience to independence. Within the document, a key commitment was the 'Care Leaver Covenant' to which private, public, and voluntary sectors would pledge to provide support care leavers aged 16-25 to help them live independently.
This has been developed over the last several years and now there are hundreds of opportunities and resources available to care leavers from across the country listed on their website:
https://mycovenant.org.uk/
This has been developed over the last several years and now there are hundreds of opportunities and resources available to care leavers from across the country listed on their website:
https://mycovenant.org.uk/
Protected Characteristics for Care Experience
In November 2024, Hackney Council passed a motion to consider care leavers as a protected characteristic, ensuring that future services and policies will undergo equality impact assessments to prioritize the voices, needs, priorities, and rights of young people with care experience (whether living in Hackney or elsewhere) and improve outcomes in areas such as readiness for independent living, access to work readiness and employability skills, building future careers and gaining experience, and championing access to apprenticeships and support through recruitment processes.
Transport for London (TfL) Care Leavers' concessions
Care Leavers aged between 18 and 25 who live in London can now apply for half price bus and tram travel. You are only required to apply to this scheme once. The photocard will then be valide until your 26th birthday.
In order to be eligible you must be:
A London Care Leaver
Aged between 18 and 25
Living in a London Borough
Getting no other free or discounted travel
As you are only able to have one photo card with TfL, it may not be to your advantage to apply to his scheme if you are a student and have an 18+ Student Oyster photocard or a Job Centre Plus Travel Discount as both of these schemes include discounted travel on the entire TfL network, including the London Underground.
If you wish to apply for the care leavers' concession, please complete this short Google Form so that we are able to confirm with TfL that you are a care leaver known to Hackney. You will then apply for the scheme on the TfL website but please give it 2-3 weeks before you try to apply as it takes a bit of time for us to share information with TfL
In order to apply, you'll need to have:
An active email address
Digital photo of you which must be a .gpg, .bmp or .gif file and be less than 6MB
Details of a debit or credit card registered to a London borough address
£20 application fee - We will pay this for you. Please speak to your personal advisor or social worker if you need financial support for this.
More information can be found here.
National House Project -
Energy Champions
The Young Energy Champions is a project within the National House Project. It's aimed to education young people around energy awareness. There are online resources, films, and podcasts which can be accessed through the following website:
https://thehouseproject.org/energy-champions
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