Renting a council home
The Leaving Care Service can support you with accessing your own tenancy through Rotherham Council’s housing service, Key Choices.
Your personal advisor will work with you to help you become ready for your tenancy and when you are, will apply to the priority panel for your care leaver priority status. If the panel agrees that you are ready for your own tenancy, you will become eligible to bid on council properties. Your personal advisorwill support you to do this.
It is really important that you know that you can only make bids for housing when you have priority status. When you make a successful bid, you will become the tenant of your own council property.
We can only ensure that you have priority status in Rotherham. If you have lived in another area for a certain amount of time, you may be accepted on to that area’s housing list. It is very difficult to apply for council housing in some areas of the country where housing stock is low. Your personal advisorcan talk to you about this and help to find alternatives if this affects you.
