The Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership oversees a number of Northern Ireland wide sub-groups established to take forward integrated planning on a Northern Ireland wide basis, including a Sub-Group on Looked After Children. This Sub-Group is called Looked After Children (LAC16+).
A ‘Looked After Child’ is defined as:
‘The Children (NI) Order 1995 states that a ‘looked after’ child is one ‘who is in the care of a Trust or who is provided with accommodation by a Trust’.Looked after children can live:
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The needs of Looked After Children are complex and diverse, many experiencing some form of trauma prior to becoming a looked after child. These are challenges to which the CYPSP Looked After Children (LAC16+) Sub-Group anticipate to address to ensure the needs of looked after children are prioritized and addressed through statutory, community and voluntary social care services.
Progress to date
Message from the Chair of the CYPSP Looked After Children/Youth Homelessness 16+ Sub-Group
Your views are being sought about how to improve outcomes for looked after children and young people across Northern Ireland. A regional sub group with membership from the statutory, voluntary and community sectors has been set up by the Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership- the Looked After Children/Youth Homelessness 16+ (LAC/16+) Sub-Group.
Minutes
- Minutes 7 June 2018
- Minutes 21 November 2017
- Minutes 5 October 2017
- Minutes 22 August 2017
- Minutes 17 January 2017
- Minutes 13 September 2016
- Minutes 12 January 2016
- Minutes 20 April 2015
- Minutes 13 January 2015
- Minutes 09 October 2014
- Minutes 10 December 2013
- Minutes 24 September 2013
- Minutes 10th May 2013
- Minutes 14th February 2013
- Minutes 4th December 2012
- Minutes 27th September 2012
- Minutes 28th June 2012
Papers
- WHSCT Looked After Children in Education Perspective, September 2018
- SEHSCT Looked After Children in Education Perspective, September 2018
- SHSCT Looked After Children in Education Perspective, September 2018
- NHSCT Looked After Children in Education Perspective, September 2018
- BHSCT – Education, Training and Employment at the heart for Looked After Children and Care Leavers, September 2018
- Looked After Children Educational Attainment, Tommy Doherty, HSCB, September 2018
- Strategic Context – Achieving Economic Wellbeing, Elaine Lawson, DoH, September 2018
- Welcome Note – Looked After Children in Education Workshop, September 2018
- LAC 16+ Action Plan 2014-2017 Updated January 2017
- LAC 16+ Action Plan 2014 – 2017
- POL RB Our Life in Care Article – VOYPIC
- Deaf Children and Young People in Foster Care – NDCS 2014
- Deaf Children who Become Looked After – NDCS 2014
- LAC 16+ Press Release – Jan 2015
- LAC 16+ Summary 09Oct14
- A Shared Commitment to Improve Pathways and Interventions for Homeless Young People
- Message from Chair – Re: Consultation