The Islington Plan for Looked After Children and ... - Islington Council

. To improve our partnership work with Adult Mental Health and Adult
Social Care.
A joint Transitions Board has been established which will lead on actions
to ensure services are available to young people who cannot transition to
Adult Social Care Services.
Transition for mental health young people is managed between Children
Services and the Camden and Islington Foundation Trust (FT). There is a
joint working protocol in place with the Children and Adolescent Mental
Health Services (CAMHS) and Adult Mental Health Services. A CAMHS
Strategy Action Plan 09 – 12 is in place which includes actions “To
improve support at transition points – between different Children’s
Services and for those moving from CAMHS into adulthood”.
We will review the protocol and action plan to ensure that young people
moving to independent living at 18 or older who may not meet the
threshold for onward referral to Adult Social Care Services continue to be
supported.
A specialist mental health practitioner will continue to work with the leaving
care service to identify and respond to the mental health and emotional
wellbeing needs of care leavers.
c. To support care leavers to maximise their income and manage their
money effectively.
We will support children in care to develop the skills to manage their
money via the preparation for independence ‘toolkit.
We will conduct a review of how we save for children to ensure that those
savings are maximized for children at the end of their time in care.
We will provide a financial policy to care leavers covering all entitlements
for young people transitioning from care and those who can return for a
leaving care service once they have left care.
We will ensure care leavers claim the benefits to which they are entitled.
d. Further increase the number of care leavers in education,
employment or training from ages 16 to 21.
We will monitor care leavers not in education, employment or training by
age group through the new Education, Employment and Training team
and support them to re-engage with work, training or education.
We will use the Community Based Budgets partnership with Job Centre
Plus to achieve better employment opportunities and support for care
leavers in terms of their pathways to work.
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