The Leaving Care Allowance Increase
The Leaving Care Allowance has increased from
£2,000 to £3,000 from 1 April 2023.
What is the Leaving Care Allowance?
Care Leavers receive a Leaving Care Allowance (also known as a setting up home allowance) to help you buy essential things when moving into your own home.
Local Authorities have been allocated funding to enable them to pay the £1,000 uplift to young people leaving care from 2023 - 2025.
Details can be found in the Section 31 Grant Determination Letter via this link.
If this applies to you, contact your Personal Advisor or Leaving Care Team Duty Line to make sure you receive this uplift.
Welcome to The Transformed You
Established in 2013, The Transformed You is a Care Experienced led organisation, specialising in providing Intervention and Support Mentoring Programmes and Services, to transform the lives and raise the aspirations of Children and Young People in Care and Care Leavers, because we believe that Change Is Possible.
Our Why?
Children and Young People enter the Care System filled with trauma, rejection and fear. Our adverse childhood experiences impact on how we grow and develop, which can present as behaviour and emotional difficulties that impact on our school performance, our home life, our social interactions and how we see ourselves and how we see our future.
Through Our Service we:
Teach our Mentees how to identify and channel their emotions
Teach them how to respond to and work through difficult and challenging times
Support them to learn how to develop healthy social skills
Empower them to have a positive sense of who they are
Affirm their ability to achieve their aspirations
Help them create a pathway on how to make their dreams their reality
Support them to express their views, feelings and wishes to Professionals to make sure their needs are met
Equip them with Life Skills for life after Care
More Information about what we do can be found throughout our Website!
We’re an Independent Organisation (not Government Funded) and so if our Cause resonates with you and you’d like to help us continue making a difference in the lives of Children and Young People in Care and Care Leavers, why not consider Shopping With Us or becoming a Pay It Forward Champion.
Thank You in Advance, With Your Help, Change Is Possible!