WHO CARES
CONSULTANCY
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What's Inside
Comprehensive guidance covering all aspects of independent living. Care Leavers Edition designed specifically for care-experienced young people.
Budgeting and financial awareness
Cooking and healthy eating
Understanding housing and tenancy
Building supportive relationships
Wellbeing, resilience, and problem-solving
Career planning and educational pathways
Understanding rights and responsibilities
Practical life skills for independent living
Training and Commissioning
Alongside the release of Volume 2 of My Book of Independence, we will begin delivering practical training sessions for professionals working with young people across social care, education, housing, youth services, and community settings.
Upcoming Training Programme – Launching November 2026
The training has been developed to help professionals move beyond information-sharing and strengthen how they support young people to prepare for adulthood through more practical, reflective, and relational approaches.
How to use My Book of Independence in one-to-one or group settings
Building confidence and engagement with young people
Supporting independence through practical and reflective conversation
Sessions will be co-delivered alongside our trained lived experience facilitators with care-experienced and marginalised backgrounds, creating opportunities for authentic discussion, reflection, and learning grounded in real-life experience.
Relational approaches to preparation for adulthood
Co-production and lived experience in practice
Training includes:
Commission customised editions tailored to your local authority's specific needs and requirements.
Commissioning Service
This service facilitates consultations on the adaptation of My Book of Independence into personalised editions tailored to the specific needs and requirements of each local authority's care leavers.
Customisation & Development - Holding consultations with Children, Young People, Managers, and decision makers
E-commerce Platform - Streamlined ordering via the website for bulk and individual purchases
Consultancy & Training - Workforce training and consultancy services alongside the commissioning