Our impact
Working across East Anglia, we empower young people to overcome challenges and unlock their potential through tailored support, mentoring, and skill-building.
Our Impact Report highlights examples of the difference we have made to young people's lives, not only to their present but also to their future.
The young people we support are at the very centre of all our decisions and activity. Thanks to them, we are clearer than ever about where we are going, what we want to achieve and how we do this.
We will continue to support young people to tell their stories, continue rolling out our expertise in trauma informed practice, challenge policy and strive for better outcomes for those with care experience.
Going above and beyond
We provide tailored, wraparound support that helps young people move beyond trauma. Their outcomes exceed national averages, showing that our relationship-based approach works - proving that, with the right support, young people in, around and leaving care can grow beyond what they thought was possible.
Young people in care are three times more likely to not be in education,
employment or training (NEET).*
71% of young people in our leaving care service are engaged in employment,
education or training - a figure that exceeds the national average.
Nationally, just 14% of care leavers under 19 progress to higher education, compared to 47% of other young people. At England’s top 32 universities, only 90 care leavers began undergraduate courses.**
Five of our young people are currently studying for a degree, including two at top-tier universities.
Children and young people who have lived in care are approximately four times more likely to have mental health needs than children living with their birth families.***
From the latest satisfaction survey from our young people:
85% said they felt happier due to the support they've received.
65% said they felt less anxious.
*Office for National Statistics Report, published May 2025.
**Breaking the Care Ceiling, Civitas, Sept 2023.
***NSPCC, 2015.
