500 young people living in their own homes

Posted 3rd December 2024

WOW!🎉

500 young people leaving care from LHPs across the UK have been supported to move into their first home and are living 'connected and fulfilling’ lives.

From what started as a Department for Education Social Care Innovation project in 2015 with support from the Innovation Unit, NHP was established in 2018 to develop and improve how young people leave care.

A psychologically informed practice framework enables young people to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to succeed and the engagement of partners, stakeholders, businesses and funders has allowed us to develop the workforce, support systems change and improve the outcomes for young people.

With an emphasis on relational interdependence, our young people are connected to each other and to the communities that they live in. With positive independent evaluations, EET at 75%, and savings to LA budgets, our approach continues to be developed, and we are now working with 24 LAs with a growth plan to increase this to 50 in five years.

Whilst it is right to recognise the contributions of so many, this success would not have been achieved without the fantastic staff who work in our Local House Projects or our amazing young people from Care Leavers National Movement who have been keen to change things for themselves and the system for those that follow.

It may have taken 7 years to support the first 500 young people into their first home, but we are expecting the next 500 young people to move in to their own homes by August 2026!