Local Offer for Care Leavers

This is the guide that all local authorities are required to provide you with. It contains information about the services and support that Care Leavers are entitled to and able to access within their local authority.

We will update this information regularly as new services and entitlements are agreed.

Goal 5: Get information, Join Your Community and Be Heard

We want to help you be an active part of your community and make sure your voice is heard. Your Social Worker or Personal Advisor will help you to:

  • Know Your Rights: They will go through Enfield’s Local Offer with you and show you how to use the Care Leavers online portal to know your rights and what you can get.
  • Access Your Records: They will help you see your records and make sense of them if you ask for it. 
  • Get Important Documents: They will help you get important documents like your passport, National Insurance Number (NINO) and birth certificate (if you were born in the UK). This will help you sign up to vote in elections. 
  • Access other Important Forms: like your Care Plan, Health Passport, Pathway Plan or your Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
  • Share Your Thoughts: They will listen to you and give you chances to share your thoughts on the support you get and how you want Enfield’s Care Leavers Team to be.
  • Make a Complaint: They will tell you how to make a complaint, suggest improvements and get independent help.
  • Interview Panels: If you want, you can join interview panels to help choose new staff members.
  • Join Groups: You can join the Care Leavers Forum or other support groups for specific young people (like LGBTQ+, young parents, or asylum-seekers) at the Care Leavers Hub.
  • Celebrate You: We will celebrate your uniqueness and achievements every year. Since 2019, we have an annual event during National Care Leaver’s Week at the end of October.
  • Events and Activities: You can explore other events and activities with our Participation Officer for Care Leavers.
  • Youth Development Service: You can join Enfield’s Youth Development Service to build your skills, confidence, and have a voice in your community.
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Directory

Enfield’s Local Offer & Directory of Resources

Will provide you with information as a Care Leaver of all your rights and the help you can get from Enfield up to your 25th birthday. This Directory is part of Enfield’s Local Offer, also available on this website, and aims to ensure you have all the necessary information and support to thrive independently and achieve your goals.

Citizens Advice Enfield
Action for Children
  • Support: Enfield has partnered up with Action For Children to provide you with an independent advocacy service. 
  • Phone: 0207 254 9408
  • Website: Action For Children
Coram Voice
  • Support on offer to know your rights and express your views.
  • Phone: 0808 800 5792
  • Website: Coram Voice
Become
  • Support, advice, training. Whether you need help with your situation, your voice or your future Become is there for you 
  • Phone: 0800 023 2033
  • Website: Become Charity
Enfield Care Leavers Forum
  • Support: provides the opportunity to be part and represent the voices of Care Leavers within the Council, champion your needs, improve the service and opportunities on offer as well as influence policies and decisions made by the Council. 
  • Get in touch: Do you want to know more about how to get involved with Enfield’s Care Leavers Forum? You can contact Maxeen on:
  • Phone: 0208 132 2464/07356185102
  • Website: maxeen.messam@enfield.gov.uk
Enfield Youth Service
  • Support: Enfield Youth Development Service promotes young people’s personal and social development and enable them to have a voice, influence change and place in their communities and society as a whole. They will work with you to build resilience, character and give you the confidence and life skills you need to live, learn, work and achieve. 
  • Contact: Talisha Anderson-Wright- Senior Youth Development Manager
  • Phone: 0208 132 2783/0752 151 362
  • Website: Youth Enfield & Free Activity Portal for Young People
Enfield Youth Council (EYC)
  • Support: provides the opportunity for care leavers to be part and represent the voices of young people across the borough and champion the needs of young people across Enfield, improve local services and opportunities and influence policies and decisions made by the Council.
  • Interested? Email youthcouncil@enfield.gov.uk
  • Website: Enfield Youth Elections
Volunteer Centre Enfield (VCE)
  • Support: helps you find volunteering opportunities with many local voluntary and community sector organisations.  
  • Interested? Get in touch through their website or pay them a visit at Community House, 311 Fore Street, N9 0PZ.
  • Website: Volunteer Centre Enfield
Drive Forward
  • Support: provides space for care experienced people to play a significant and active role in improving experiences for peers and the next generation of children and young people going through the care system.  
  • Phone: 0207 620 3000
  • Website: Drive Forward Foundation
Group of young people