We promise we will
Enjoy
- Help you to continue hobbies and friendships from before you came into care, if it is safe to do so
- Make consent forms as simple as possible so you don’t miss out
- Encourage you to access good quality, affordable social and cultural leisure activities
- Support you to participate in positive activities that help you increase your confidence and to feel well
- Help you meet other young people who are looked-after so you have friends who understand what you’re going through
Achieve
- Believe in you and what you can achieve and have high aspirations for you
- Make sure you have positive role models in your life to look up to
- Make sure young children in our care have the best possible start to life through early years provision from age 3
- Try to keep you at the same school if this is possible even if you have to move placements
- Make sure you have the support of a designated teacher who understands your circumstances
- Make sure you have a high quality, clear, understandable, up-to-date Personal Education Plan
- Make sure you don’t have to move placements at important times unless the circumstances are exceptional
- Make sure you have access to a computer to support your education
- Help you to learn English if it is not your first language
- Develop pathways to make sure young people are supported in training, housing, financial and emotional well-being when leaving care
If you feel any part of this Pledge is not working or that the council hasn’t kept these promises for you then you can contact the Children’s Rights Service on 01482 396828 or email rights4u@eastriding.gov.uk and we will come out and see you if this is what you want. We can try to help you find out why this has happened and make sure things change for you.