National Standards in Leaving Care

These National Standards in Leaving Care, the related self assessment tool and the practice database on this website, are designed to be used together to help you review and improve the quality of your services for young people in and leaving care.

As a whole the standards are a blueprint for enabling young people from care to make a successful transition to a healthy and productive adult life.

Clicking on the links in the standards document can also take you to the self assessment tool, which can be downloaded to rate the quality of your services against the standards.

You can also access tools and examples of local authority practice in the Practice Database from both the standards document and from the self assessment tool.

View or download a copy of the National Standards in Leaving Care here.