Meet the team days
Pathways have started to organise regular meet the team days for young people who have not yet left care and for those who are already working with us. These will be arranged a few times a year where the pathways team come together introduce themselves and explain a bit about what we do. We will also share this local offer with young people and updates from the service about any new or exciting projects we have running.
For those of you new to us, this is an opportunity to meet us in a relaxed setting and learn about how we work before your move into adulthood begins. For those who already work with us, this is a great opportunity to reconnect with us and meet other care leavers.
If that doesn’t appeal then we always have tasty food and snacks!
Care leavers week
Once a year we get a planning group together made up of young people, Pathway Advisors, pathways managers and foster carers to plan care leavers week. Together we come up with ideas for how we want to celebrate this important event. This is often a week full of small activities, trips or even a celebration event.
Care leavers week is an important time to raise awareness and create a space for the celebration of your amazing achievements. Care leavers week falls at the end of October each year and our planning group starts to meet in June. Pathways Advisors will invite you to these planning meetings close to the time, we hope to see you there!
Maintaining Family Links
We know the importance of maintaining links with important people. We can fund travel so you can spend time with key people and family members or help you to reconnect with supportive people from your past. All you need to do is speak with your Pathways Advisor to work out what support you need.
Social care records
You have the right to access the records held by Children’s Services about you. Reading your records may be a positive experience, however, there may be information that you could find upsetting. Talk this through with your PA and others who support you. Your PA will offer you support if you want this when reading your records. For more information on your rights when accessing your records see:
Holiday and festival celebrations and allowances
At Christmas we hold events and activities at the Orange Box with some of the other services. This includes Christmas lunch and often a Christmas film. If you don’t live near the Orange Box we can make arrangements to get you to the celebration.
We also offer payments at Christmas or equivalent festivals and on your birthday up to the age of 21. The rates of these payments depend on your age so check it out with your Pathway Advisor.