Member

Measures to introduce corporate parenting responsibilities for government departments and key public bodies, including health services, will help ensure those bodies consider the needs, circumstances and common barriers of looked-after children and care leavers when they provide their services. We are talking about health in its widest sense, so the Department of Health but also the local bodies: the ICBs, NHS trusts, and others. We have to be mindful of who actually commissions GP services through their contracts. In addition, the existing statutory guidance for local authorities on publishing their local offer for care leavers already stipulates that the local offer should include details of the support that the local authority provides in relation to finances, health and well-being, and relationships.