27/09/2026
🙌🏻 More great feedback from a parent of an intern that previously ‘fell through the cracks of the education system’.
🌟 Supported internships are life changing and don’t just take our word for it. Read to the end if your child was lost in the system and you are now thinking, ‘what next?’ 🌟
Some young people slip through the cracks not because they don’t need support, but because they’re quiet… compliant… “good.”
This intern went through her whole education without an EHCP - not because she didn’t need one, but because she wasn’t seen. 😔
She’s been out of education for three years.
Three years of feeling stuck.
Three years of being overlooked.
And now, with the support of Aspirations Doncaster, she has finally been awarded an EHCP specifically for her supported internship - a life‑changing investment from Doncaster Local Authority that is already transforming her future and protecting her from becoming economically inactive. 👏
Her mum shared this message, and it says everything:
“Hiya, I just wanted to let you know that she is absolutely loving it 🥰
Never known her so eager to get up in a morning! She’s made friends with another girl - her first friend since primary school - and she’s elated. She’s even driving herself after just a couple of days of me going with her. It’s so amazing… me and my mum have been crying 😂 happy tears of course, but we just can’t believe it. Thank you for everything xx”
This is what happens when a young person is finally understood. 👌
When the right support is put in place.
When someone invests in their future instead of letting them disappear.
This intern is stepping into her confidence, her independence, her adulthood - and she’s doing it with joy.
We are so proud of her. 💛