Nicholl Hardwick - The Care System

Drive Forward Foundation a charity that focusses on helping care-experienced young people get into fulfilling and sustainable employment. In order to do that we need to know what is the care system to truly understand what it means to be care-experienced and how we can best support our young people.

Listen to one of our Senior Employment Consultants, Nicholl Hardwick, explain the system, the challenges it presents and how our work at Drive Forward is changing the experience of care for the better!

If you're care-experienced and want to know about the Care Leaver Offer please click here.

If you want to learn more about our work  or want to partner with us please click here.

Intro & outro music sourced from pixabay.com
Artists: Asepirawan20 & jorikbasov 

Chapters

• 0:46 What's an Employment Consultant?
• 1:45 What is Care Experience?
• 2:22 Sensitive information ahead
• 2:30 Reasons for going into Care
• 3:20 Levels of Support
• 3:58 Where do young people get placed in the Care System?
• 4:45 Trauma & the Care System
• 5:45 Mental Health Provision
• 6:42 Is the Care System holistic?
• 7:47 Meeting the Professionals involved in care
• 12:10 Trauma leaving the Care System
• 13:10 Care isn't the same everywhere
• 14:10 Care Leaver Offer
• 14:54 Accommodation Options
• 19:42 Early Intervention Service
• 20:46 Turning 16 in Care
• 22:34 Can you leave the Care System at 16?
• 23:32 Every experience of the Care System is unique
• 23:47 Personal Advisors & Pathway Plans
• 25:52 Reducing Support
• 26:47 Turning 18 in Care
• 27:20 Signed up for Benefits
• 27:52 What support is there with big decisions?
• 28:14 "Suitable Accomodation"
• 31:04 What can Drive Forward do to help?
• 32:17 Do you really need to work?
• 34:01 Ringfenced Opportunities with Corporate Partners
• 34:40 Opportunities for a better future
• 36:36 What can I get from Drive Forward as a Care-experienced young person?
• 38:59 The Care System for 18+ young people
• 41:28 How can I get involved as an Employer?
• 43:35 What is Drive Forward doing to improve the Care System?
• 45:44 Policy Forum Achievements