Sentences with phrase «left local authority care»

Schools will also receive # 1,900 for each pupil who has left local authority care because of one of the following:

Whilst there is a considerable literature on the difficulties faced by young people leaving local authority care, much less is known about how children who have been brought up in kinship care get on as they reach their late teens and early adulthood.

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Currently, local authorities can delegate functions relating to looked after children or children who are leaving the care of the local authority.

This applies if you are in receipt of certain benefits or the child is «looked after» by the local authority or has left care under a Special Guardianship Order, Residence Order or Child Arrangements Order.

Without a foster carer assessment taking place, a child going to live with a relative may be regarded by the local authority as an informal kinship care arrangement and they may not support the child further despite the evidence of risk that led to the child leaving their parents.

Kinship carers step in to save children from going into care, but often face isolation and are left to struggle alone, frequently without any financial or practical support from local authorities.

She regularly acts for local authorities, parents, extended family members and children in care proceedings and applications for adoption orders, including leave to oppose applications.

Two - year - old free entitlement From September 2014, two - year - old children adopted from local authority care or who left care under a Special Guardianship (SG) Order or Child Arrangements (CA) Order (formally known as a Residence Order *), will be entitled to 570 hours a year of Government funded early education over no fewer than 38 weeks of the year (which equates to 15 hours per week).

The pupil premium and children adopted from care in local authority funded alternative provision From April 2015, all children in local authority funded alternative provision (AP), who have been adopted from care or who left care under a special guardianship order or residence / child arrangements order, will also attract the Pupil Premium Plus, currently worth # 1,900 per pupil.