Your health

We are committed to helping you stay physically and emotionally safe. Here are some of the ways your worker can support you to look after your physical and mental health.

We can give you information on healthy living and help find local services such as GPs, dentists, drop in health centres or counsellors. Your leaving care worker can go along with you to help you register with a GP and also help you to understand if you are entitled to help with paying for prescriptions. We pledge to ensure that by the time you leave care you are already registered with a GP, dentist and any other relevant health professionals.

We can help you to work out if you are eligible to apply for free medical prescriptions. In some cases, like when you have lots of regular appointments, we can help you to pay for transport to attend them.

If you are a parent, we will take an interest in your child/ren and support you to do the best for them. We will help you arrange childcare, if this is what you want.

We will work with you to make a ‘health passport’ containing key information from your childhood (for example, when and if you have had immunisations) and your current health needs.