What's in the new guidance on the education of looked-afterchildren?
A lot of it is already familiar, couched in the language of Every ChildMatters and, of course, section 52 of the Children Act 2004: in its dutyto safeguard and promote the welfare of a looked-after child, the localauthority has a particular duty to promote the child's educationalachievement.
But what about staying safe, being healthy, making a positivecontribution, and so on? Looked-after children should be able to expectus to have the same ambitions for them as we do for any child - and thatexpectation provides the starting point for this statutory guidance forlocal authorities in England. But at the moment, the policy priority iseducation.
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