Children who are Looked After

A small percentage of children and young people in North Lincolnshire do not live with their families and are 'looked after' by the local council.

The responsibility for the education, health and welfare of these young people lies with the whole council in its role as ‘corporate parent’.

The local council has a duty, along with its partners in the health services, to:

• ensure that these children and young people receive appropriate full time education
• benefit from the same educational opportunities afforded to other children
• have access to effective healthcare, assessment treatment and support.

These protocols apply to all children who are looked after by North Lincolnshire Council. They include children whose care or educational placement has been organised by North Lincolnshire Council outside of the council boundaries.

All agencies working with looked after children in North Lincolnshire agreed these protocols. They represent a commitment to work together to ensure that the educational and health needs of looked after children are a priority.

A copy of the North Lincolnshire protocols, procedures and guidance for improving the education and health of children in care is available to download as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. To view and print the document you will need the appropriate reader. An Adobe Acrobat reader can be downloaded free from the Adobe website (full instructions for downloading the reader are provided on the web site).