Frequently Asked Questions
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The Care Leavers’ Quality mark is awarded to businesses that support care leavers into employment. The Gold, Silver or Bronze Award is presented, allowing companies to showcase their social value activity.
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Gold Quality Mark
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Awarded to businesses who:
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- commit to employ a care leaver (includes apprenticeships)
- contribute £250 (or over) a year to the Bursary Fund
- offer automatic interviews to care leavers meeting the minimum criteria for jobs.
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Silver Quality Mark
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Awarded to businesses who:
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- contribute £250 (or over) a year to the Care Leavers’ Bursary Fund
- offer automatic interviews to care leavers meeting the minimum criteria for job.s
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Bronze Quality Mark
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Awarded to businesses who:
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- offer automatic interviews to care leavers meeting the minimum criteria for your job.
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- Set up by the government, the Care Leaver Covenant organisation works with organisations across the country to connect care leavers with exclusive opportunities in education, work, wellbeing, money and their home. As a holder of Quality Mark, you will gain automatic membership to the organisation.
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- The Care Leavers’ Bursary Fund is a fund that is independently managed by the Community Council of Staffordshire. It is designed to support care experienced young people to access funding they need to support them into or in work; funding that is not accessible any other way. The support may pay for training, business set up costs, professional clothing or specialist travel costs, for example. This fund also supports care leavers’ access to higher education.
Businesses and the public can donate any amount into the fund.
Find out more about the Bursary Fund run by the Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire.
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- Commit to taking on a care leaver and we will:
- support you to find the right care leaver for your business through our fully-funded and expert recruitment service, Staffordshire Jobs and Careers
- support you to find any funding available to support them. You may wise to consider employing them as an apprentice and take advantage of national funding, for example.
- publicly award you the Gold ‘Care Leavers’ Quality Mark’ and accreditation to the Care Leavers Covenant; a sign of commitment to local people, local care leavers and the local economy.
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1) You can fill in the expression of interest form below or send us an email. We will send you more information and you can ask for a call-back.
2) You can also attend a free business breakfast event being held on Wednesday 26 March, 8:00am to 10:30am at Trentham Park Gold/Golf Club, Park Drive, Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 8AE. Industry experts BayNel will be the key note speakers at a breakfast event designed to support businesses with a range of social value activities.
Register for the social value business breakfast event
Expression of Interest Form