Select Committee · Education Committee
16 Plus Care Options
Status: Closed
Opened: 15 Jan 2014
Closed: 20 Oct 2014
The Government recently announced a new legal duty on local authorities to support financially every care leaver who wants to stay with their foster parents until their 21st birthday. This new legal duty does not apply to young people living in residential children’s homes or those placed in alternative types of accommodation. It is this …