The Leaving Care consultation aims to update existing guidance to take into account new duties on councils surrounding care leavers.
This includes regulations brought in this year to ensure councils produce a clear leaving care plan for all looked-after 16- to 18-year-olds that emphasises the ongoing support they must provide to care leavers.
Keeping in touch with care leavers is a focus of the consultation, with councils being called on to regularly talk with and contact them to check on issues such as housing.
The consultation stresses that this contact must be carried out in the same way that a "reasonable parent" would and focus on building a relationship with the care leaver.
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