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<p>As of 14 March 2019, 75 organisations from the public, private and voluntary sectors
had signed the care leaver covenant and published their offers to care leavers. All
covenant offers are available to view at: <a href="https://mycovenant.org.uk/featured-signatories/"
target="_blank">https://mycovenant.org.uk/featured-signatories/</a>. In addition,
each government department has set out its offer to care leavers, copies of which
have been published on GOV.UK. Spectra First, the government’s delivery partner for
the care leaver covenant, is currently working with a number of other organisations
which have signed a statement of intent confirming that they will provide opportunities
to care leavers, but where the detail of their offer has not been finalised.</p><p>
</p><p>The aim of the care leaver covenant is to secure offers for care leavers that
will support them to achieve one or more of the 5 outcomes set out in the cross-government
care leaver strategy – Keep on Caring – one of which is to be engaged in education,
employment or training. From the 75 organisations that have signed the covenant so
far, employment offers include:</p><ul><li>27 offers of work experience placements,
ranging from one week to 3 months;</li><li>5 offers of apprenticeships and;</li><li>11
offers of paid internships or employment.</li></ul><p>In addition, PGL (a provider
of activity holidays for children and young people) has over 1,000 jobs in their summer
camps in 2019 and has indicated that they would strongly encourage care leavers to
apply for these vacancies. The government is leading the way through its civil service
care leaver internship scheme, which in 2019 is providing 75 12-month paid internships
across 18 government departments.</p><p> </p><p>Other (non-employment-related) offers
of support include: enhanced support packages for care leavers from universities and
further education colleges, and offers of workshops/training on areas such as money
management and maintaining a tenancy.</p>
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