England – Government Policy & Strategies

This guideline covers how organisations, professionals and carers can work together to deliver high quality care, stable placements and nurturing relationships for looked-after children and young people…

This guidance sets out the Department for Education, HM Revenue and Customs, and Department for Work and Pensions frameworks that local authorities must be aware of, and take account of, when developing a local ‘staying put’ policy.

Statutory guidance for local authorities to support looked-after children’s aspirations to achieve in further and higher education

Into independence, not out of care: 16 plus care options – Government response to the Committee’s second report of session 2014-15 third special report of session 2014-14…

This guidance is of use to all personal advisers and care leavers seeking learning resources to gain new skills and open up new opportunities for work…

This document replaces statutory guidance on ‘Promoting the health and wellbeing of looked-after children’ issued in 2009.

This strategy looks at how to improve services, support and advice for care leavers. It makes recommendations for local and national government, and wider sectors of society.

Given the difficulty in sometimes gathering accurate information about foster care, it highlights the need to make clear and publicly available all foster care allowances set by fostering services.

This information is for providers and managers on the use of surveillance, including CCTV, in their residential childcare settings and how Ofsted will evaluate its use.