Publications

This resource pack provides an overview of councils' responsibilities towards care leavers and showcases best practice examples of how councils across the country are providing excellent and innovative support.

Every councillor has a role to play in embedding the corporate parenting principles and doing all they can to support cared for children to live meaningful and fulfilling lives.

In October and November 2023, the Local Government Association sent an online survey to all councils providing children’s social care in England. The purpose of the survey was to assess the frequency and costs arising from high-cost children’s social care placements, as well as to explore reasons why the costs of certain placements are particularly high.

From 1 April 2026, Ofsted no longer makes an overall headline judgement under the Inspection of Local Authority Childrens Services (ILACS) framework.

This update highlights what the campaign has achieved over the past year but also, importantly, looks at where there is still more work to do.

This resource pack is designed to help councillors understand what permanency is, the factors that can have an impact and the questions that will help to understand what’s working well and what could be improved.

In March 2015 the LGA wrote to local authorities (LAs) inviting them to complete an online self-assessment about their plans to prepare for the transfer of commissioning responsibilities for 0-5 year olds from NHS England to local government on 1 October 2015.