Triple planning is essential when working with young people seeking asylum. The asylum process is complex, unpredictable and often painfully slow and young people feel every moment of that uncertainty. Triple planning supports us to navigate that uncertainty safely, honestly and collaboratively.
To support this work, we’ve created three free visual resources that practitioners can use as prompts for their work.
These resources are for everyone in the young person’s network: social workers, IROs, personal advisors, ESOL teachers, carers, key workers, advocates, youth workers, foster carers and residential staff as we believe that effective triple planning only works when the whole team understands it.
A positive decision offers safety, stability and the chance to build a future in the UK. But imagining that future can be difficult for young people who have experienced trauma, long delays or uncertainty.
This visual prompt supports conversations about:
It’s a hopeful, grounding way to explore the future together.
Delays are now a defining feature of the asylum system. Months (sometimes years) of waiting for either an initial decision or an appeal outcome, can impact mental health, education, identity, confidence and motivation.
This resource offers a simple visual structure to help practitioners and young people:
We can’t control the system, but we can support young people to cope with it.
This is the area practitioners often feel most anxious about and the one most likely to be avoided. But avoiding the conversation doesn’t protect young people; planning does.
This visual prompt helps practitioners explore:
No young person should ever face a refusal without support and clarity.
You can download all three resources here:
Planning for a Positive Decision
Planning for a Long Wait
Planning for a Refusal
If you’d like to deepen your confidence with triple planning and build a consistent, trauma‑informed approach across your team, you can book onto our training.
We explore:
This training is designed for the whole workforce social workers, IROs, PAs, carers, key workers, ESOL teachers, youth workers and anyone supporting unaccompanied or separated young people.
