Part 1Children’s social care
Support for children in care, leaving care or in kinship care and carers
8Local offer for care leavers
(1)
Section 2 of the Children and Social Work Act 2017 (local offer for care leavers in England) is amended as follows.
(2)
“(c)
the arrangements that the local authority has in place for the purpose of supporting and assisting care leavers in their transition to adulthood and independent living.”
(3)
(4)
“(2A)
Information required to be published by a local authority under subsection (1)(c) includes information about the authority’s arrangements for—
(a)
enabling it to anticipate the future needs of care leavers in respect of accommodation and services of a kind mentioned in subsection (2);
(b)
co-operating with local housing authorities in its area in assisting former relevant children aged under 25 to find and keep suitable accommodation;
(c)
providing assistance to find and keep suitable accommodation to former relevant children aged under 25—
(i)
who are at risk of homelessness, or
(ii)
in the case of former relevant children detained in prison, a young offender institution or a secure training centre, on their release from detention;
(d)
providing financial support for care leavers;
(e)
assisting former relevant children aged under 25 to access services of a kind mentioned in subsection (2).
(2B)
(5)
In subsection (7)—
(a)
“(c)
former relevant children aged under 25;”;
(b)
““former relevant child” has the meaning given by section 23C(1) of the Children Act 1989;”.