The care leavers’ Local Offer explains all the support available in Bradford for you as a care leaver. Your Leaving Care Service is your first point of contact.
We recognise that just because you are preparing to leave care or have left care already; we haven’t stopped caring about you. The Local Offer for Bradford Care Leavers sets out what you can expect beyond care.
Our Local Offer will help you understand what services and support you can expect not only from your Leaving Care Service but from the wider services within Bradford District in supporting your journey to independence and adulthood.
We understand that moving out of care and starting to live on your own is a big step. The local offer is a guide to the support you could have when you leave care, so you know where to go for advice and help if you need this.
Our Care Leavers have helped to develop this offer and we will continue to listen to your views to make sure the services we offer are what you need.
You have told us your top priorities:
- Finding a good place to live
- Having time to get to know your social worker and/or personal advisor and build relationships
- Knowing your rights and entitlements before leaving care to help you plan
- Help with budgeting and finding work
- Help with getting important qualifications
- Being creative in how you learn new skills including virtual and e-learning opportunities
Other pages in this section
- Accommodation
- Bradford Trust Care Leavers Finance Policy 2025
- Health and Wellbeing
- If you are a parent or parent to be
- Money Matters
- Our Corporate Parenting Responsibilities to you
- Participation – Your Voice
- Preparation for working life: education, employment and training
- Preparing for Independence
- Relationships, Identity and Participation
- Support for Separated Migrant Young People
- Support if you have additional needs
- Turning 25: ‘always here’
- Who is a Care Leaver?
- Who is a Personal Advisor and how will they help me?
- Your Leaving Care Service
- Your Pathway Plan
- Your right to be heard and taken seriously
- Your Rights
- Youth justice services, probation and prison