What you can expect from your Corporate Parents
The government have introduced corporate parenting principles that require all departments within a local authority to recognise their role as a corporate parent and encourage them to look at the support and services they provide. These principles require corporate parents:
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To act in the best interest and promote the physical, mental health and wellbeing of those children and young people;
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To encourage those children and young people to express their views, wishes and feelings;
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To take into account the views, wishes and feelings of those children and young people;
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To help those children and young people to gain access to, and make the best use of, the services provided by the local authority and its relevant partners;
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To promote high aspirations and seek to secure the best outcomes for those children and young people;
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To ensure those children and young people are safe and have stability in their home lives, relationships, education and/or work place;
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To prepare those children and young people for adulthood and independent living.