Youth Media produced the North West After Care Forum website as a working model, which has been endorsed by the DfES as Best Practice for all authorities, and which takes responsibility for holding and updating the national list of lead officers.
The website contains features such as a shared events calendar, discussion forums allowing practitioners to share views and to discuss best practice, and tools for administrating the online database of Leaving Care services throughout the UK, bring together Leaving Care and After Care Services around the country.
Our ambition is to ensure a network of sites covering the entire of the UK is firmly in place by 2007.
For more information, please visit the North West After Care Forum website at http://www.nwacf.com.
The names of Lead Officers with responsibility for implementing the National Protocol will be held on the NWACF database of Leaving Care services.
Role and responsibilities outlined below:
EXTRACT FROM NATIONAL PROTOCOL
INTER-AUTHORITY ARRANGEMENTS FOR CARE LEAVERS
SECTION 5: NAMED LEAD OFFICER IN EACH AUTHORITY
5 | Named Lead Officer in each authority |
5.1 | ŕ | can be contacted in the event of difficulty and who will try to resolve any concerns reported about the service offered to young people; and |
| ŕ | will contribute to the monitoring of the Protocol. |
| The lead officer will usually be the local authority service manager with overall direct accountability for care leaving services |
5.2 | The Lead Officer will ensure that wherever a care leaver from that responsible authority intends to move or has moved to a different local authority then the Lead Officer of the receiving authority is notified with as much notice and information as is reasonably possible. |
5.3 | The Lead Officer will also ensure that systems are in place to receive such notifications from other responsible authorities in order to enable negotiations between authorities about how the best needs of the care leaver can be addressed. Those systems will include the capacity to respond quickly where the move of the care leaver is unplanned. |
5.4 | The Lead Officer will also ensure that monitoring arrangements are in place to monitor the implementation of this Protocol. Lead officers might usually share monitoring information about services for care leavers living outside the responsible authority area with senior officers in their own authority, with regional leaving care networks and with other professional forums. |
The Lead Officer details for your Authority can be submitted by email to net@nwacf.com or online via the Feedback page. Please include: name, job title, postal address, email address, fax and phone numbers, thank you.
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