What is Lifelong Links?
Lifelong Links is for children and young people who don’t live with their family. They could be in foster care, live outside of Devon, or live in residential care.
Lifelong Links helps you reconnect with your family and people who have previously been important to you such as neighbours, teachers, former social workers, foster carers and youth workers.
How does Lifelong Links work?
- An adult will talk to you about Lifelong Links and whether you would like to take part.
- If you do, the professionals in your life will arrange for this to happen.
- Your Lifelong Links coordinator will arrange to meet with you and explain what happens next.
- Your coordinator will help to find your family and friends.
- We’ll plan the Lifelong Links meeting together.
- We’ll host your Lifelong Links Family Group Conference.
- You’ll start to receive the support from family and friends.
- We can review your Lifelong Links plan if you want to.
What could get better?
- You can reconnect with people who are important to you.
- You could feel more confident and happier.
- Feel happier at school or college.
- It could improve things for you long term as you grow into an adult.
Watch a short animation explaining what Lifelong Links means to the children involved
Contact us
If you want to learn more, you can talk to your Lifelong Links Coordinator, or you can get in touch with the team by email at Lifelonglinks@devon.gov.uk.