Steve McCabe – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2014-04-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department provides to local authorities on care leaving arrangements for asylum seekers who came to the UK alone as children.
Mr Edward Timpson
Guidance to local authorities on care leaving arrangements for asylum seekers who came to the UK alone as children is included in Volume 3 of ‘The Children Act Guidance and Regulations: Planning Transition to Adulthood for Care Leavers’. http://resources.leavingcare.org/uploads/c4f7aeaf941cdefb8f4a18f478aa1f19.pdf
The Department for Education published for consultation in January of this year draft statutory guidance to local authorities on the care of unaccompanied asylum seeking and trafficked children.
This new guidance brings together guidance on transition planning with wider guidance on providing care for unaccompanied asylum seeking children. That consultation has now closed and final guidance will be published in due course.
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