Pathway Plan

You and your Social Worker and/or Personal Advisor will prepare a "Pathway Plan" which will take over when your Care Plan ends. If you are 16 now, your social worker and/or Personal Advisor must start preparing your Pathway Plan if they haven't already prepared it. It must be completed within 3 months of your 16th birthday at the latest.

Your Pathway Plan looks at the support you will need to live independently, it can help you think about what you already know and about what you need to learn. It is your plan for the future.

Your Pathway Plan includes things like where you'll live, any education or training you might want, jobs, your money, any cultural or identity needs, your health and your lifestyle.

You and others (like your social worker, carer, and your personal advisor) will agree what goes in your Pathway Plan before you leave care. It says what each person has agreed to do to help you get to where you want to be.

Your life can change very quickly sometimes, so you, your social worker and your personal advisor will look at your plan regularly so that it can be changed if necessary. Ideally it should be reviewed every six months until you are 21.

If you have any extra needs (like a disability), these will be included in the plan.