For more information on retention, FosterIng Network members can contact their local practice advisor. The DfE has updated its guidelines on planning the transition to adulthood for those leaving care to refer to Staying in Place in Chapter 7. This will help local authorities and carers plan how to make arrangements for places to stay. It also covers important areas, such as the support that foster parents may need, as well as the advice and guidance that local authorities should provide to young people. The Foster Network has been closely involved in the development of its content. Staying in place: What does this mean for you? (Catch 22 National Nursing Advisory Service). The following tips highlight best practices in organising accommodation – legislation and advice on what works for young people and carers and how best to support carers: The discussion should start with the young person and the carer about the possibility of staying in place as soon as possible, ideally before the young person reaches the age of 16. The retention option must be identified as part of the boy`s initial care planning and pathway plan completed after his or her 16th birthday. The DfE`s allowances to individual local authorities to support his whereabouts until 2019 are available online.

An examination may be organised earlier after consultation between the young person, the supervisors and the specialists concerned. A stay-in-place rule is not the same as a host family. The adolescent who remains in place, who must be a former relevant child, is no longer a child in care. You are a young adult and a caregiver. You are entitled to support as a person leaving the health care system and to receive a personal counsellor. The caregiver is no longer acting as a caregiver for this young adult; they are their “former caregiver”. The foster home becomes a “stay-in-place regulation” and is not subject to the Nursing Services Regulation. It is not prescribed how long a young person is accommodated with his or her caregiver before the age of 18 in order to establish the right to stay. theoretically, it could be one night. If a caregiver has a young person in their home, West Berkshire would like them to remain registered as a caregiver. This will provide them with the support of the foster care team and the care association.

Although the role is changing, the Council wants to maintain the same quality of care for the youth. The implementation of the Children and Families Act 2014, Part 5 on Child Protection (98), means that local authorities in England are required to implement youth residence programmes supported until the end of the 21st century. facilitate, monitor and support the age of life if they so wish, as well as their carers, unless the local authority considers that the placement system is not compatible with the young person`s well-being. Local authorities are required to make known the level of support to young adults and former carers through placement programmes so that foster parents can decide whether or not to offer it. The amount of financial assistance to former carers is agreed and determined within the framework of each local authority`s policy on place of stay. Young people living with carers supported by independent providers should be treated in the same way as young people living with in-house carers from local authorities when considering a retention scheme. Local authorities should hold early discussions with independent care providers on the option of a “stay-in-place” system. Please refer to the contract of the Independent Reception Agency of the Centre-Sud (IFA): “Staying Put” Protocol. This discussion should include the amount of the allowance that the local authority pays to the former caregiver. If a caregiver wishes to remain registered as a caregiver, the youth who remains housed will be screened for the CPS`s Prohibited Children`s List. Community Care gives advice on setting up a place to stay. The support network has developed guidelines to create a best practice framework to support all parties in the implementation of Staying Put.

The Ministry of Education (DfE) has updated the legal guidelines in accordance with the new obligation. A good practice guide for the sector has also been developed in cooperation with the Partnership for Children. The teen needs a caregiver license agreement that defines the type of license agreement and a breakdown of costs. This is used by the Department of Housing Allowances to maximize the housing allowance for the young person. In addition, a retention agreement is concluded, in which the expectations of the caregiver and the adolescent are defined. This is developed with the support of the young worker. If a FIP continues to play a role in assisting caregivers who offer place-of-stay placement, it is not unreasonable that fees should be agreed upon for this support. The framework conditions for commissioning must take this issue into account. These guidelines set out the framework for Her Majesty`s Department of Education, Revenue and Customs and the Department of Work and Pensions, which local authorities should be aware of and take into account when developing a local retention policy. If a caregiver agrees to accommodate an adult who is not considered vulnerable and also does not want to remain a registered caregiver, they do not need any type of DBS exam.

A temporary life outside the former nursing home, . B, such as attending university courses, should not exclude a regulation on the “place of stay”. It may be an inpatient training facility; Organize introductory training for the armed forces or other training or employment programs that require a young person to live from home. The new inspection frameworks have strengthened of the obligation for Ofsted to consider services for young people who have left care. This means that the provisions on places of stay should be a focal point for inspections. These guidelines outline “place of stay” arrangements that allow people leaving care to stay with their former foster parents after the age of 18. The local authority will explain to the young person all their rights, including how to grant them their holiday care allowance once they have left a `residence` agreement and live independently. Consideration should be given to how local authorities and independent care providers (PLOs) work with PLT carers who wish to offer retention arrangements to a young person they support. The placement agreement is not a foster home, so it can be negotiated separately from care agreements and contracts, although some frameworks contain a reference to maintaining it in place as part of their tendering procedures. However, IFP must be fully involved in the negotiations, as the decisions taken will have an impact on the availability of this supervisor and the assessment of its continued suitability for funding, and will have a financial impact on all stakeholders. The guide was developed with the support of a working group of experts and offers practical advice on the implementation of maintenance within the existing legal framework.

At its core, this guide is a plea to promote services – local and independent authorities – by accepting and understanding that staying in place is the new “normal” and going above and beyond to achieve it. Just as there has been a change from the expectation that children will leave care at the age of 16 over the past 15 years, we now need an industry understanding that independent youth should be able to live at home until age 21 and a determination to do so. The young person`s pathway plan (which can be replaced by a `residence agreement` from the age of 18) should include all practical arrangements for the young person who remains in the residence agreement as a young adult. It should define the “ground rules” of the budget, as well as the areas of responsibility expected of all parties to the agreement. Many of them will be an extension of expectations of them when they were foster children. This includes agreements such as: If the caregivers are tenants themselves, it is advisable that they review their lease and ensure that their lease allows them to have a tenant. If caregivers are mortgage payers, it is advisable that they verify that a tenant is complying with the terms of their mortgage lender and insurer. Each young person will have different reasons to stay with their caregivers after the age of 18.

The local authority will want to ensure that the end of a “stay put” arrangement is not another “cliff edge” for the boy, but a gradual transition to an independent life. .