What is my Pathway Plan
When you are 15 years and 9 months old, you begin to become a Care Leaver. The Local Authority (your Corporate Parent) start to help you plan the pathway to your future. They do this with you by completing a Pathway Plan.
There are two parts to your Pathway Plan. Part 1 is all about what you need (leaving care assessment of need) and Part 2 is all about your goals and plans. In Part 2 this will cover what you want to do, who is going to help you do it and when will it be done by.
Your first Pathway Plan will be completed by your sixteenth birthday when you become an eligible young person. This will set out your plan from age 16 to age 18.
You may take stepping stones to your independence in this time.
When you are 16 and 17 years of age, you will have a Care Plan and a Pathway Plan. You will review the plan with your Social Worker or Personal Adviser:
- If you have any big changes in your life, such as any worries about your health, your housing situation changes or there's a change in your family
- If your Social Worker or PErsonal Adviser thinks your Pathway Plan needs to be updated.
- At a minimum this will take place every six moths.
Remember this is your plan!
Your Social Worker and Personal Adviser will be there to support you and hopefully make all those goals on your Pathway Plan achievable.
Your Personal Advisor will visit you at least every eight weeks. However, if you need more support that can be agreed within your Pathway Plan.
Your Pathway Plan will be in place and regularly reviewed up until you turn 21, at which point you can choose whether you need a Pathway Plan to help you with your future and this will depend on your needs.
What happens after I turn 21?
After the age of 21, if you no longer have needs which require a Pathway Plan, we still would like to keep in touch with you. This means that we will contact you every year to see how you are doing.
If you need support, but do not have an allocated PA, you can call in to the Journey and access the drop-in service for advice or guidance or to tell us about things that are happening for you.
We also love hearing positive news from you so if you’ve had a baby, passed your driving test or got a new job we'd love to hear about that too. We will be on hand to offer information, advice and guidance when things go wrong or those times in life when you reach a bump in the road and just need someone to talk to about it.