As part of the cross-government Care Leaver Strategy, the Department for Education (DfE) will work alongside the National Care Advisory Service to improve training for residential care staff.
In total, the strategy contains 24 action points including pledges that:
• the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills will publish a guide to the further education and skills system for care leavers and those that work with them
• the DfE will strengthen statutory guidance about local authority duties to support care leavers aged between 21 and 24 who wish to return to education or training
• the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will introduce a “marker” on forms and databases so members of staff at organisations such as the Jobcentre Plus can identify care leavers and give them the support they are entitled to
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