Children's minister Nadhim Zahawi recently announced the Care Leaver Covenant will be launched this autumn.
Making the announcement at the Association of Directors of Children's Services annual conference, he said the covenant is "a pledge from organisations across our society, in which they make concrete commitments to help improve outcomes for care leavers".
The covenant is one of the measures in the Children and Social Work Act (see "Reforms to council leaving care services", below).
Alongside advising the minister on national policy on care leavers, my role involves supporting all local authorities to implement the new care leaver provisions in the Act and individual councils that require advice.
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