Advice and support from a personal advisor (PA)
Your Personal Advisor will be there to support you on your journey towards leaving care. You should meet them when you are 16 and you will be able to ask them for support until up to the age of 25, depending upon your needs.
Once allocated, your Personal Advisor will contact you within two weeks to arrange to meet you.
We will try and make sure you have the same Personal Advisor during your time with the service, but if this does need to change, we’ll let you know as soon as we can.
Support available
Your Personal Advisor is there to support, advise and guide you, and these are some of the things they may help you with:
- Going to appointments
- Co-ordinating support for you from other services
- Helping you acheive your ambitions in education/training/employment
- Supporting you to access the correct finances
- Being a shoulder to cry on when you may be struggling
- Helping you with your setting home allowance to make sure you have everything for your home!
- Reviewing your Pathway Plan
- Supporting you to make sure you have accomodation that meets your needs
- Supporting you to attend meetings
- Supporting you to engage in leisure and social activities
- Making sure your voice is heard
- Engaging with you to make changes for other children and young people
- Helping you with you family and social relationships.
