Health, wellbeing and education of looked-after children

Improving attainment in primary and secondary schools, individual saving accounts, advocacy services.

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Guidance and regulation

• Promoting the education of looked-after and previously looked-after children
  • Statutory guidance
  • 26 February 2018
  • Department for Education
• Children Act 1989: care planning, placement and case review
  • Statutory guidance
  • 8 July 2021
  • Department for Education
• Designated teacher for looked-after and previously looked-after children
  • Statutory guidance
  • 26 February 2018
  • Department for Education
• Promoting the health and wellbeing of looked-after children
  • Statutory guidance
  • 24 August 2022
  • Department for Education and Department of Health and Social Care
• Junior individual saving accounts for looked-after children
  • Statutory guidance
  • 17 April 2023
  • Department for Education

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News and communications

• Experts demand accelerated change in multi-agency safeguarding practice
  • 30 January 2024
  • Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
  • Press release
• Improved mental health support for children in care
  • 13 June 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Children in Care in Northern Ireland 2022/23
  • 3 September 2024
  • Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • National statistics
• Children in Care in Northern Ireland 2021/22
  • 22 August 2023
  • Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • National statistics
• Children in Care in Northern Ireland 2020/21
  • 23 August 2022
  • Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • National statistics
• Children in Care in Northern Ireland 2019/20
  • 8 September 2021
  • Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • National statistics
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  • 7 May 2021
  • Department for Education
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse custodial institutions report: government response
  • 7 May 2021
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper
• Children in need of help and protection: call for evidence
  • 10 December 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Call for evidence outcome
• Mental health and wellbeing of looked-after children: government response
  • 13 September 2016
  • Department of Health and Social Care and Department for Education
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel: annual report 2022 to 2023
  • 2 February 2024
  • Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
  • Corporate report
• Memorandum of understanding and information-sharing protocol between the Health and Care Professions Council and Ofsted
  • 5 September 2016
  • Ofsted
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Department for Education
• Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
• Department of Health & Social Care

• Ofsted