Children and young people leaving care

Services

Leaving foster or local authority care

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

Providing supported accommodation for children and young people
- Guidance
- 23 March 2023
- Department for Education
Children Act 1989: transition to adulthood for care leavers
- Statutory guidance
- 10 February 2025
- Department for Education
Staying put: arrangements for care leavers aged 18 years and above
- Guidance
- 22 May 2013
- Department for Education, HM Revenue & Customs, and Department for Work and Pensions
Applying corporate parenting principles to looked-after children and care leavers
- Statutory guidance
- 26 February 2018
- Department for Education
Extending Personal Adviser support to age 25
- Guidance
- 26 February 2018
- Department for Education

Rough sleeping funding: grant determination letter
- 9 May 2025
- Department for Education
- Correspondence
Intentional homelessness for care leavers: letter to local authorities
- 3 May 2024
- Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Department for Education
- Correspondence
Government bans unregulated accommodation for young people in care
- 23 March 2023
- Department for Education
- Press release
Ofsted launches consultation on care leavers inspection judgement
- 20 June 2022
- Ofsted
- News story
Staying Put grant: determination letter
- 2 April 2022
- Department for Education
- Correspondence

Northern Ireland Care Leavers 2023/24
- 27 March 2025
- Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- National statistics
Childrens Social Care Statistics for Northern Ireland 2023/24
- 17 October 2024
- Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- National statistics
Children Adopted from Care in Northern Ireland 2023/24
- 25 September 2024
- Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- National statistics
Northern Ireland Care Leavers 2022/23
- 25 January 2024
- Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- National statistics
Childrens Social Care Statistics for Northern Ireland 2022/23
- 19 October 2023
- Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- National statistics

Introducing regulations for supported accommodation provision
- 23 March 2023
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 16 January 2023
Introducing a separate judgement about care leavers within the inspection of local authority children’s services (ILACS)
- 2 December 2022
- Ofsted
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 29 July 2022
Department for Work and Pensions: Care Leaver Covenant offer
- 13 July 2023
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Policy paper
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government: Care Leaver Covenant offer
- 26 October 2018
- Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
- Policy paper
Department for Education: Care Leaver Covenant offer
- 26 October 2018
- Department for Education
- Policy paper