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Ways to help a care leaver into employment

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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:

  • have access to a talent pool of young people who can grow your business and fill skills gaps
  • contribute to your company’s social value, diversity and inclusion activities
  • boost your potential to win procurement tenders; many of which are weighted towards businesses evidencing local social value activities
  • work with people that have been in care and have independence, resilience and adaptability.

We’ll help you by:

  • supporting you to find the right care leaver for your business through our fully-funded and expert recruitment service Staffordshire Jobs and Careers
  • supporting you to find any funding available to support your new recruit. You may wish to consider employing them as an apprentice and take advantage of national funding, for example.
  • publicly awarding you the Gold ‘Care Leavers Quality Mark’ and accreditation to the Care Leavers Covenant; a sign of commitment to local people, local care leavers and the local economy.
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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)

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In the same way as many businesses do for people with a disability, you could automatically offer a care leaver an interview if they meet your minimum job specification. 

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

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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.

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