Helping care-experienced young people make life work between services.
Nurture Connect is a community-based support service for care-experienced young people aged 16 and above. We focus on communication, advocacy, practical skills and community connection, so that pathway plans, appointments and independence goals turn into everyday action rather than paperwork that stalls.
Who it is for
Nurture Connect supports older teenagers and young adults with care experience who are working towards independence while managing stress, uncertainty or mental-health pressure. The system rarely makes that easy. We help it make sense.
We work alongside Personal Advisers, social workers, leaving-care teams, supported-accommodation providers, colleges and youth services.
What we do
A letter from housing, a benefits form, a GP portal, an immigration deadline. On their own these are small. Stacked up, they stop a young person in their tracks. We help young people read, understand and respond to the admin tied to housing, benefits, education, health and mental-health appointments.
We help young people prepare for reviews, pathway-plan meetings, housing panels and college conversations, so they can say what they think and be heard in the decisions that shape their lives.
We help young people reach local activities, trusted adults and peer support, and we coach the everyday skills that independence actually runs on: budgeting, travel confidence, digital literacy, food shopping and household routines.
How it works
Support is shaped around the young person's goals, risks and situation, not forced into a fixed package.
You get in touch. We acknowledge the enquiry the same working day and gather what we need to understand the young person.
We meet the young person and the referrer, and agree clear goals from the start.
In the community, at home, in placement or online, shaped around the young person's week.
With the young person and the referrer, so progress stays honest and visible.
Clear summaries for commissioners and providers, written in plain English.
Why it works
Care-experienced young people usually have plenty of advice. What they often lack is a consistent adult who turns plans into action. That is the gap we fill.
What we are, and what we are not
Nurture Connect is built to complement statutory and clinical services, never to replace them. The line is deliberate, and we keep it.
Outcomes
We agree clear goals with the referrer at the start, and report against them.
Kent and London
Nurture Connect supports care-experienced young people aged 16 and above across Kent, with practical, community-based support. We work with local authorities, providers and leaving-care professionals to help young people manage appointments, communication, routines and independence goals. The service is based near Sittingbourne and reaches across the county.
Nurture Connect works with London boroughs, providers and youth services to offer practical support for care-experienced young people. We help young people stay engaged, communicate with professionals and follow through on pathway-plan actions.
Who we are
Nurture Connect works alongside Nurture Place, a proposed therapeutic residential service in Kent. The same values run through both: warmth, honesty and strong oversight. Everything we do is built to operate in line with the standards our regulators and commissioners expect.
"We will only ever describe what we can evidence. That is the standard a young person deserves, and the standard a commissioner should expect."
Questions
No. Nurture Connect does not provide, manage, broker or supervise accommodation, tenancies or placements. It provides community-based communication, advocacy and practical support.
No. It does not provide personal care, nursing care or regulated care activities.
No. Nurture Connect is mental-health-aware and trauma-informed, but it does not provide therapy, diagnosis, clinical treatment or crisis mental-health intervention.
Referrals can come from local authorities, Personal Advisers, social workers, commissioners, supported-accommodation providers, colleges or youth services, depending on the commissioning arrangement.
Care-experienced young people aged 16 and above, including those preparing to leave care, care leavers aged 18 to 25, and older care-experienced adults where support is commissioned.
Across Kent and London. The service is based near Sittingbourne in Kent.
Practical tasks, communication, advocacy, appointments, pathway-plan actions, routines, budgeting, digital literacy, travel confidence, community connection and independence skills.
Yes, alongside the accommodation provider where commissioned. It does not provide the accommodation itself or take on the provider's responsibilities.
From light-touch weekly support to step-up support of up to 48 hours for a time-limited period, depending on the commissioned package and the young person's needs.
Enquiries and commissioning
We work with local authorities, leaving-care teams, supported-accommodation providers and youth services across Kent and London. Whether it is one young person, a small cohort or a flexible block of hours, we will talk through a model that fits your priorities.
The quickest way is a call. We answer enquiries the same working day, ask for the information we need and give you an honest first view within an agreed timescale.