Your personal advisor

Your social worker will be responsible for supporting you until you reach the age of 18.

At 17, you will be provided with a personal advisor who will start to work alongside your social worker to support you into your adulthood. Your personal advisor will be based at the TLC Hub and you can contact them or visit them there if you wish. The TLC Hub hosts a range of services that you can access and your personal advisor will tell you more about these services and your entitlements under the local offer for care leavers when you meet.

Once you have discussed your wishes and ideas with your workers, together you will draw up a pathway plan to cover the different parts of your life you may need support with.

This could include:

• education
• training and employment
• where you will live
• your health
• money
• other personal support you might need

Since April 2018, most care leavers have the right to personal advisor support up to the age of 25.

Their role is to help you prepare for independence and the amount of support they can offer will depend on what you want and your circumstances.

Until you reach 21, your personal advisor will see you at least once every two months and will keep in contact with you in between visits.

We will try and ensure that you keep the same personal advisor where possible.