Annual Care Leavers Challenge

Durham Children in Care Council held a care leavers challenge for policy holders, decisions makers and anyone working with children and young people to sign up to one or two weeks, ‘Living life in the footsteps of a care leaver’.

This meant living on a budget of £57.90 a week. 
 
The aim of the challenge was to raise awareness of the difficulties care leavers face on a daily basis and hopefully get more people talking about it so that it leads to a change. Over the years lots of councillors, managers and decision makers within Durham County Council have took part.
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If you are interested in running this scheme in your local authority or you simply want to find out more about the results of the challenge/the issues this challenge helped bring attention to, then please use the email provided below to contact Rob Johnson.

Email - robert.johnson@investinginchildren.net