Typically a
placement officer works closely with the
educational institutes and potential companies to provide
suitable candidates or in other words he has to sell the skills of students to employers.
The amendments primarily focus upon: - A duty on local authorities to explore
suitable wider family
placements prior to a child becoming looked after, including offering families a family group conference; - Extending the provisions to support
educational attainment of previously looked after children to all children in kinship care.