Transition & Outreach

Phoenix Learning and Care Ltd, offer a range of specialist outreach services which can be tailor made to meet the needs of the individual young person. Phoenix Learning and Care Ltd, ensure all young people leaving care, work towards building a portfolio which is set using the requirements of the Leaving Care Act 2000. These portfolios are an important tool and help young people learn the important skills necessary as well as self preservation and having the evidence of experience.

Supporting Education

Phoenix Learning and Care Ltd also complete outreach work for individuals who are in the process of leaving care. This can be a very problematic experience and sometimes extra support is required to help with the transition into adulthood.

All young people deserve a chance to gain qualifications and Phoenix Learning and Care Ltd will help them acquire what is important to them and their personal needs/circumstances and sharing staff’s knowledge in making the young person’s transition into the adult world as smooth as possible

Work undertaken will be to help promote education, health, housing, keeping safe, suitable friendships, maintaining and financing the home, planning meals, shopping/budgeting and opening and keeping bank accounts.

Resources

Staff are experienced to help guide young people to use local facilities and helping young people gain qualifications by using local charities, voluntary organisation’s and local colleges which may enable them to complete their GCSE’s, ASDAN or vocational skills.

When & how to secure a placement

Placements are ideally begun in the second or in the early part of the third trimester and should continue for a minimum of twelve months after the child is born.

Placements are ideally begun in the second or in the early part of the third trimester and should continue for a minimum of twelve months after the child is born.

However it is clear that ideal circumstances rarely exist and Phoenix Childcare Ltd are pragmatic in their approach to circumstances that are not ideal. For example, where a referral is made and no vacancy exists, a unit can often be established within a short timescale, occasionally young people can hide the fact they are pregnant until very late and things have to be sorted out quickly or their circumstances unexpectedly change once the child is born. These are seen not as problems but as challenges to be over come by our senior staff team.

A young teenage mother can also visit the home, who has used the facility can also offer an outlook towards being in the mother and baby experience.