Potential reasons why an individual may enter the looked after system. Unit 10 Assignment 1

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Betc Level 3 in Health and Social Care Extended Diploma. Unit 10 Assignment 1.

Caring for Children and Young

People.

Potential reasons why an individual may be removed from the home to be looked after by the local authority.

The , a currently enacted piece of legislation which aims to provide a legal requirement for local authority services with respect to children’s homes, community homes, voluntary homes and to make provision with respect to fostering, child minding and day care for young children and adoption, Introduces the concept of a looked after child. A looked after child is an individual under the age of 21, but generally 16 or 18 dependent on the external risks, whom has been placed under a care order or has moved into voluntary care.

One reason for an individual to enter into the looked after system is the individual has been found to live in unsafe living conditions, this would either be a hygiene, nourishment, security or abuse situation that has left the local authority believing the child’s health or wellbeing is at serious risk and there is no way to mitigate the issue.  

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A second reason for an individual to enter into the looked after system is they have travelled to this country unaccompanied in search of asylum. Under The  there is a legal requirement o f the local authority if there is a connection between the individual and the local authority, for example their parents’ who lived in the area died and the child has no remaining carer the local authority would be required take responsibility for the minor.  In other cases the UK Border Agency has the powers to offer leave to remain to minors under the age of 17 ½ ...

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