Just because you are leaving care, or have already left care, we haven’t stopped caring about you. We want to make sure all young people in care and care leavers in Barnet feel safe and supported and know where to go to for advice and help. We know that it is a big step to move out of care and start living independently or with friends, so we have set out in our draft Barnet Care Leavers Local Offer what support and services Barnet Council provides to young people making this journey. This includes information on the support that we absolutely must offer you by law, as well as any extra support that we think others can give you to make the journey as easy as possible. 

We are asking you and all those involved in providing these services, what they think of our first draft of the Barnet Care Leavers Local Offer. We need everyone’s views. We want to make sure this document is clear and easy to understand and helps young people who have already left and those who are about to leave care, to get the most up-to-date and relevant information about the support they, as a Barnet care leaver, are entitled to receive.  We really want to know what you think of the offer, for example, what have we missed out, or what could we explain more clearly?

Please help us to get this right by taking time to read the draft Barnet Care Leavers Local Offer and share your views on what we are proposing by completing a short questionnaire. This will help us to provide you with the right information and support, at the right time.

Thank you for your time – your participation in this important consultation is greatly appreciated.

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The council does not collect personal information in this questionnaire, which means the information you provide is anonymous. We do not ask for your name, address, email address, telephone number, full post code or any other information that would allow us to identify you.  Since the data we collect is anonymous, it is not considered to be personal data under data protection legislation (such as the General Data Protection Regulation or the Data Protection Act 2018).
If you have any questions about this statement please email first.contact@barnet.gov.uk

Instructions for completing questionnaire 
We have tried to make the questionnaire as easy and quick as possible to complete.  Please try to answer all the questions.

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* 1. Section 1: About You
Do you attend? (Please tick one option only)

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* 2. Do you currently live in Barnet? (Please tick one option only)

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* 3. What type of placement are you currently in?

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* 4. Which two things currently are you PERSONALLY most concerned about? (Please tick two boxes below)

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* 5. How well informed do you feel about each of the following? (Please tick one option only for each statement)

  Very Well Informed Fairly Well Informed Not Very Well Informed Not Very Well Informed at All Don't Know
The role of a Personal Adviser
What housing support is available
Where to go for advice on housing
What financial support you are entitled to
Where to go for support in an emergency
What support is available to help you with further education, training, or employment
Your rights and how to complain
How and where to get involved and have your say in the development of local services

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* 6.
The Barnet Care Leaving Service 
The Barnet Leaving Care Service (Onwards and Upwards) is based at 34-36 Woodhouse Road, North Finchley. N12 0RG where a team of Personal Advisers work with young people 18-25 years of age supporting them in their transition of adulthood.
How often do you visit the Onwards and Upwards office at Woodhouse Road on average?

  Never Weekly 1- 3 times a month 3-6 times a year Over 1 year ago I didn't know it existed
How often do you visit the Onwards and Upwards office at Woodhouse Road on average

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* 7. How often are you in contact with your Onwards and Upwards Social Worker or Personal Adviser?

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* 8. Section 2: Content of the Local Offer
Reading through the Local Offer, to what extent do you agree or disagree there is enough information about each of the following areas of support and the services offered?

  Strongly Agree Tend to Agree Neither Agree nor Disagree Tend to Disagree Strongly Disagree Not sure/ Don't know
Support from the Onwards and Upwards team
Financial Support
Accommodation and Housing
Education, Training and Employment
Staying fit and healthy
Participation
Useful information and contacts

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* 9. Would you like information on any of the topics listed below to be included in the Local Offer?

  Yes No Don't Know
Family and relationships 
Life skills and general support (such as support groups) 
Migrant Support 
Risk and Criminal Justice 
Early Help 

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* 10. Section 3: Communication
How would you like to find out information on the Local Offer? (Please tick all that apply)

Section 4: Diversity monitoring
The Equality Act 2010 identifies nine protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation, and requires the council to pay due regard to equalities in eliminating unlawful discrimination, advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations between people from different groups. We ask questions about the groups so that we can assess any impact of our services and practices on different groups. The information we collect helps the council to check that our policies and services are fair and accessible.  
 
Collecting this information will help us understand the needs of our different communities and we encourage you to complete the following questions.
All your answers will be treated in confidence and will be stored securely in an anonymous format. All information will be stored in accordance with our responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 1998.
For the purposes of this questionnaire we are asking four questions of the protected characteristics included in the Equality Act 2010.

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* 11. In which age group do you fall? (Please tick one option only)

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* 12. Are you: (Please tick one option only)

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* 13. What is your ethnic origin? (Please tick one option only)

Disability

The Equality Act 2010 defines disability as ‘a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities’. 
In this definition, long- term means more than 12 months and would cover long-term illness such as cancer and HIV or mental health problems.

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* 14. Do you consider that you have a disability as outlined above? (Please tick one option only)

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* 15. If you have answered ‘yes’, please select the definition(s) from the list below that best describes your disability/disabilities:

Thank you for taking part in our questionnaire. Once you press ‘submit’ your responses will automatically be submitted to Barnet Council.
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