News and communications

Notification of additional funding to local authorities to provide extra support to care leavers at risk of homelessness or rough sleeping.

• Updated: 10 April 2024

All supported accommodation providers for looked after 16- and 17-year-olds will be required to register with Ofsted and meet standards from October 2023

• Updated: 23 March 2023

The consultation asks for views on a proposed new judgement on the experiences and progress of care leavers.

• Updated: 20 June 2022

The grant determination letters to local authorities for 'Staying Put' arrangements.

• Updated: 2 April 2022

More than a third of care leavers feel that they left care too early, according to a report by Ofsted.

• Updated: 19 January 2022

More places in children’s homes for vulnerable young people along with mandatory national standards and new Ofsted accountability to end unregulated accommodation.

• Updated: 15 December 2021

New funding to extend support to care leavers and proposals launched to introduce national standards in unregulated accommodation.

• Updated: 24 May 2021

A ban on placing vulnerable children under the age of 16 in unregulated accommodation will come into force in September

• Updated: 19 February 2021

New guidance for councils has been published to help ensure care leavers have the stable homes they need, and prevent them from becoming homeless.

• Updated: 26 October 2020

Education Secretary welcomes innovative approaches being trialled to reduce the number of care leavers ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’

• Updated: 28 January 2019

Nadhim Zahawi, Minister for Children and Families, spoke at the launch of a landmark package of support for young people leaving care.

• Updated: 26 October 2018

Landmark package of support announced to help raise aspirations and outcomes for care leavers

• Updated: 26 October 2018

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Barnardo’s are entering into a new partnership to support care leavers into work.

• Updated: 1 October 2018