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Children and young people leaving care

Care leavers' charter, council responsibilities and support. Staying put arrangements.

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Services

  1. Leaving foster or local authority care

    Leaving foster or local council care - support from your council, review meetings and financial help

  2. Children adopted from care and the pupil premium: template letter

    A template local authorities can use to tell alternative education providers how to claim the pupil premium for children adopted from care.

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Staying put: arrangements for care leavers aged 18 years and above
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education, Department for Work and Pensions, and HM Revenue & Customs
  2. Applying corporate parenting principles to looked-after children and care leavers
    • Statutory guidance
    • Department for Education
  3. Children Act 1989: transition to adulthood for care leavers
    • Statutory guidance
    • Department for Education
  4. Children Act 1989: family and friends care
    • Statutory guidance
    • Department for Education
  5. Extending Personal Adviser support to age 25
    • Guidance
    • Department for Education
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News and communications

Correspondence

Staying Put grant: determination letter

Department for Education

  1. Rough sleeping funding: grant determination letter
    • Department for Education
    • Correspondence
  2. New schemes to help care leavers access education and employment
    • Department for Education
    • Press release
  3. Children and Families Minister launches Care Leaver Covenant
    • Department for Education
    • Speech
  4. Major new scheme launched to support young people leaving care
    • Department for Education
    • News story
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Research and statistics

  1. Northern Ireland Care Leavers 2018/19
    • Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Department of Health (Northern Ireland)
    • National statistics
  2. Childrens Social Care Statistics for Northern Ireland 2018/19
    • Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Department of Health (Northern Ireland)
    • National statistics
  3. Children Adopted from Care in Northern Ireland 2018/19
    • Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Department of Health (Northern Ireland)
    • National statistics
  4. Children’s homes research: the impact of standards on staff
    • Department for Education
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government: Care Leaver Covenant offer
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Policy paper
  2. Department for Education: Care Leaver Covenant offer
    • Department for Education
    • Policy paper
  3. Foreign & Commonwealth Office: Care Leaver Covenant offer
    • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
    • Policy paper
  4. Attorney General’s Office: Care Leaver Covenant offer
    • Attorney General's Office
    • Policy paper
  5. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy: Care Leaver Covenant offer
    • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Funding for personal adviser support for care leavers to age 25
    • Department for Education
    • Transparency
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Organisations

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