Higher education accommodation

During your final year, your leaving care worker will discuss where you plan to live when you finish studying.

You might want to stay where you have lived for the last three or four years, return to Norfolk or move elsewhere in the country. If you have been staying put with your previous carers, this will end when your course finishes. If you have your own tenancy, you will return to it permanently.

If you do not have a permanent address, your leaving care worker will support you to find and apply for your own tenancy. They will do this well before the end of your final term. You might have to meet with your worker to establish gold banding (this means your have priority for housing) and provide written evidence of your leaving care status. You will need this to support applications for more permanent housing. 

Your worker will also ensure you receive any remaining Leaving Care Grant.