Publishing a care leaver offer - Find a freedom of information request

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1. Do you accept responsibility for your local council publishing a care leaver offer?

YES/NO

2. Has your local authority made care experience a protected characteristic? YES/NO

Publishing the Local Offer

3. Have you published the Local Offer for Care Leavers?

YES/NO

If Yes, how

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Printable format (please attach pdf) YES/NO

Online YES/ NO

If Yes, where

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Downloadable App YES/NO

If yes, please give details (Name/publisher)

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4. Have care leavers co-produced the Local Offer YES/NO

If yes, please give details

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Who would you like to be the main contact for your care leavers to contact you?

Name ________________________________________

Email ________________________________________

Phone ________________________________________

Who is the Director responsible for Childrens Services?

Name ________________________________________

Email ________________________________________

5. Council Tax exemption

Do you provide council tax exemption for Care Leavers? YES/NO

If yes up to what age

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Is this only available to care leavers from your local authority? YES/NO

Please tell us what care leavers must do to apply?

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6. Employment

Do you offer any work experience within your local authority for Care Leavers? YES/NO

If yes, how many per year?
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a) Will your local authority pay for work/interview clothes to help care leavers into work? YES/N
b) Will your local authority pay towards travel to work or training for care leavers? YES/NO

c) Have you ringfenced any apprentices for Care Leavers YES/NO

d) Are Care Leavers in your local authority working as apprentices? YES/NO

If yes, how many per year?

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Please tell us anything else about work and training that you do to support care leavers?

7. Participation in society

Identification and proof of address

a) Do you ensure each young person has ID documents when they leave care? YES/NO

If yes, do you provide, pay for and help the young person gain their:

First passport YES/NO

Provisional driving license YES/NO

Birth certificate YES/NO

Getting care leavers on the road

Do you in principle (Accepting this is not always a blanket offer) assist with driving lessons? YES/NO

assist with theory tests? YES/NO

assist with driving tests? YES/NO

assist with CBT tests? YES/NO

Have local partners supported you with free travel for care leavers? YES/NO

8. Access to corporate parents

a) Do care leavers have the opportunity to meet with their corporate parents (councilors) YES/NO

b) Do care leavers have the opportunity for mentoring with any of the senior leadership team? YES/NO

If yes, please give details
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9. Children in care and care leavers council

a) Do you have a children in care and care leaver council YES/NO

If yes, please provide details. (how many attend and age groups/contact details)

b) Does your children in care and care leavers council have its own bank account? YES/NO

c) Does your children and care leavers council have its own constitution? YES/NO

If yes, please provide details

10. Health and wellbeing

a) Do care leavers get free access to leisure facilities as part of the local offer? YES/NO

b) Do care leavers have access to a free gym membership? YES/NO

c) Do care leavers has access to free swimming? YES/NO

d) Do care leavers have access to free classes? YES/NO

If yes, up to what age?

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e) If care leavers get free access to leisure facilities, can they take a friend for free? YES/NO

11. Who can care leavers contact to apply?

Name ________________________________________

Email ________________________________________

Phone ________________________________________

12. Special occasions

a) Do you pay anything towards Christmas and other religious celebrations for care leavers? YES/NO

If yes, please provide details.

b) Do you pay anything towards birthday celebrations for care leavers? YES/NO

If yes, please provide details.

13. Mentoring schemes

a) Do you have peer mentors (other care leavers)? YES/NO

b) Do you have any other mentoring schemes YES/NO

If yes, please provide details.

14. Access to care files

a) Do young people have to go through the complaints department to access their care files? YES/NO

b) Do those that access their files get emotional support before, during and after disclosure? YES/NO

If yes, please give details

15. Housing

a) Do care leavers get priority banding for social housing? YES/NO

If yes, up to what age do they get priority

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If yes, what banding priority do they get?

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Please tell us any further details on how they qualify and what they should do?

b) Do care leavers get to practice independent living with short term taster flats (practice flats) YES/NO

16. Private rental sector.

(Accepting this is not always a blanket offer)

Do you in principle assist with:

a) acting as a guarantor for care leavers in private rented property? YES/NO

b) providing a deposit for care leavers in private rented property? YES/NO

c) setting up home allowance

d) Do you provide care leavers with a setting up allowance? YES/NO

If yes, how much?

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Would you in principle assist with:

(Accepting this is not always a blanket offer)

a) support to pay at least the first year TV License for care leavers? YES/NO

b) support to pay at least the first-year home contents insurance? YES/NO

c) support to pay for redecoration costs of a care leavers first flat? YES/NO

d) support with broadband costs for care leavers? YES/NO

e) support with mobile phone costs for care leavers? YES/NO

f) Will your local authority pay towards cooking equipment? YES/NO

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

Please see below link to all the information required

https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/childrens-social-care/leaving-care

As such, this information is exempt from disclosure in accordance with the exemption set out at Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which provides that a public authority need not comply with a request for disclosure under the Act where that information is reasonably accessible by other means.