Children and young people leaving care
Care leavers' charter, council responsibilities and support. Staying put arrangements.
Services
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Leaving foster or local authority care
Leaving foster or local council care - support from your council, review meetings and financial help
Guidance and regulation
- Providing supported accommodation for children and young people
- Staying put: arrangements for care leavers aged 18 years and above
- Children Act 1989: transition to adulthood for care leavers
- Applying corporate parenting principles to looked-after children and care leavers
- Children Act 1989: family and friends care
News and communications
- Government bans unregulated accommodation for young people in care
- Ofsted launches consultation on care leavers inspection judgement
- Rough sleeping funding: grant determination letter
- Staying Put grant: determination letter
- Care leavers feel they left care too early, Ofsted finds
Research and statistics
- Northern Ireland Care Leavers 2021/22
- Childrens Social Care Statistics for Northern Ireland 2021/22
- Children Adopted from Care in Northern Ireland 2021/22
- Northern Ireland Care Leavers 2020/21
- ‘Ready or not’: care leavers’ views of preparing to leave care
Policy papers and consultations
- Introducing regulations for supported accommodation provision
- Introducing a separate judgement about care leavers within the inspection of local authority children’s services (ILACS)
- Department for Work and Pensions: Care Leaver Covenant offer
- Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government: Care Leaver Covenant offer
- Department for Education: Care Leaver Covenant offer
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Leaving care allowance uplift: section 31 grant determination letter
- Funding for personal adviser support for care leavers to age 25
- Devices and connectivity provided to children and young people