Fife Council

Care leavers receive priority for social housing

Priority is offered up to the age of: 26th birthday

Banding priority is: Considered under special needs priority list.

Additional information / how to qualify:
Our service provision for care experienced young people is individualised and contained within their pathway plan.

Care leavers get to practice independent living with taster flats

Additional information:
Our service provision for care experienced young people is individualised and contained within their pathway plan.

Fife Council in principle will assist as a guarantor for care leavers in private rented property

Details:
Our service provision for care experienced young people is individualised and contained within their pathway plan.

Fife Council in principle will assist with providing a deposit for care leavers in private rented property

Details:
Our service provision for care experienced young people is individualised and contained within their pathway plan.

Care leavers are provided with a setting up allowance

Allowance amount: £This is dependent upon the size of the property that they are moving in to.

Fife Council in principle will assist with support to pay at least the first year TV licence for care leavers

Fife Council in principle will assist with support to pay at least the first year home contents insurance for care leavers

Fife Council in principle will assist with support to pay for redecoration costs of a care leavers first flat

Fife Council in principle will assist with support with broadband costs for care leavers

Fife Council in principle will assist with support with mobile phone costs for care leavers

Fife Council will pay towards cooking equipment for care leavers

Fife Council offers work experience within the council for care leavers

Number of places per year: Information not held. We do not collect statistics for the information requested.

Fife Council will pay for work/interview clothes

Fife Council will pay towards travel to work or training

There are ringfenced apprenticeship vacancies for care leavers at Fife Council

4 for 22-23 apprenticeship vacancies are ringfenced a year

Care leavers are working as apprenticeships within Fife Council

Number per year: Information not held. We do not collect statistics for the information requested.

Additional information about work and training:
Our service provision for care experienced young people is individualised and contained within their pathway plan.

Fife Council will ensure each young person has ID documents when they leave care

Passport: Yes

Provisional Driving Licence: Yes

Birth Certificate: Yes

Fife Council in principle will assist with driving lessons

Fife Council in principle will assist with driving theory tests

Fife Council in principle will assist with driving tests

Fife Council in principle will assist with CBT tests

Partners local to Fife Council do not offer support with free travel for care leavers

Care leavers have the opportunity to meet with their corporate parents (councillors)

Care leavers do not have the opportunity for mentoring with any of the senior leadership team

Additional details:
Fife is implementing local panels for care experienced young people where they will have the opportunity to access councilors.

Fife Council does not have a children in care and care leavers council

Fife Council does not have peer mentors (other care leavers)

Fife Council does not have other mentoring schemes

Young people do not have to go through the complaints dept to access their care files

Young people who access their care files get emotional support before, during and after disclosure

Details:
Access to care files are processed through our Information Requests team. Young people making a data subject access request are ordinarily supported to access the files by their allocated worker.