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Businesses who have committed to employing a care leaver include ‘1 Step Beyond’ and ‘Spark Group’ .
By employing a young person who has been in care you can:
We’ll help you by:
The Bursary Fund is an independently managed fund (by the Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire) that supports care leavers to access funding to support them into or in work. The support may pay for training, set up costs or specialist travel costs, for example. It also supports programmes to support care leavers into higher education. Any donations into the Bursary Fund will be matched by the Community Foundation.
Find out more about and contribute to the Bursary Fund (managed by the Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire)
Support care leavers in any or all of these ways and you’ll receive a Care Leavers Covenant Quality Mark and automatic accreditation to the Care Leavers Covenant.
Read more about the Gold, Silver and Broze Care Leavers Covenant Quality Mark in the Frequently Asked Questions
Interested in finding out how your business can support care leavers into work? Please fill in the form on the link below to receive more details about your options and the Quality Mark, or be contacted by a member of the team.
Expression of Interest Form
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