Barnardo’s has launched a new service in South Lanarkshire to help care-experienced young people manage their own home and to live independently.
This new service – ‘South Lanarkshire Futures’ – is funded by, and will operate in partnership with, colleagues from South Lanarkshire Council Housing and Social Work and The National Lottery Community Fund.
Over the next two years, the service will provide an intensive wraparound transition support service to care-experienced young people aged 16 to 26 in care who require an alternative housing solution to what is currently available to.
This support will include the provision of transitional accommodation where Barnardo’s will provide young people with the support and skills they will need to transition from living in care to living independently in the community.