Looked-After Children Provision Audit and Action Plan

Looked-after and previously looked-after children encounter various challenges that can impact their education, progress, wellbeing and school experience. Recognising these needs is crucial for school leaders and designated teachers so use this Looked-After Children Provision Audit; it will help you to identify the current strengths, weaknesses and gaps in your provision so you can best support the vulnerable pupils in your school.

The audit resource guides you through key questions based on the following themes:

• Strategic and Administrative Factors - who is responsible for looked-after pupils?
• Staff and CPD - how can staff be trained to support looked-after pupils?
• Home-School Communication and Multi-Agency Working - how can schools best work with families, carers and other professionals, e.g. social workers and the virtual school headteacher (VSH), to support looked-after pupils?
• Inclusive Education - how can our curriculum best support looked-after pupils, pupils in care and previously looked-after pupils to learn, make progress and attain well?
• Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) - how can we support pupils who are looked-after and have additional needs or SEND?
• Pastoral, Physical Health and Mental Health Support - what do we have in place to support the social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) of looked-after, previously looked-after and vulnerable pupils?
• Admissions - how effective are our procedures for admitting and welcoming looked-after pupils to our school?
• Exclusions - how do we support young people in care to remain in school?

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