Frequently Asked Questions
NCAS runs a national advice and enquiries service to provide information for leaving care professionals, young people and foster carers.
We can’t give legal advice or provide individual advocacy, but we can clarify government guidance and regulations, advise you on good practice and point you towards useful esources and research. In 2008/09 we responded to over 250 enquiries.
To ask your question, fill out our online form or e-mail us.
We have prepared a series of freqently asked questions listed below under the themes of the national leaving care standards, which we also publish in our magazine Keynotes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Corporate parenting
NCAS FAQ
- Access to care record ( April 2010)
Health and Wellbeing
To be added
Accommodation
NCAS FAQs:Other resources
- Children Legal centre Information on asylum children and education
- Duties to unaccompanied asylum seekers who would otherwise be homeless or threatened with homelessness (Children's Legal Centre FAQ)
- Shelter's FAQa on housing and homelessness legislation
Education, training and leisure
NCAS FAQsOther resources- Higher Education Bursary regulations FAQs from the DCSF
- FAQs on further and higher education entitlements for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children from the Children's Legal Centre
Participation
To be added
Employment and financial assistance
Diversity
Other resources
Preparation and planning
To be added
Other resources
You may also find the following resources useful:
- NCAS practice database which lists tools, resources and practice examples relating to young people's transition from care.
- Our law and rights pages that outline relevant legislation and guidance
- Our policy briefings that give an overview of specific issues or policy initiatives relating to young people in and from care. (to be added)
- Our free publications