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.