As part of the Access To Care Records Campaign Group we are happy to announce the first of a number of roundtables to improve best practice around the country. Events will be held in London, Essex, Birmingham, Manchester.
Supported by Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey, OBE successful campaign work by the Access to Care Records Campaign Group (ACRCG) has led to the government’s latest revision of the Statutory Guidance about how local authorities should respond when a person who has grown up in care asks to see their care file.
Following on from the publication of the revised Statutory Guidance, we are now holding a number of roundtable events across the country to bring together some key people and organisations to look at how best practice can prevail when local authorities receive requests for access to records from care leavers.
Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey, OBE who so eloquently steered the debate on this matter in the House of Lords during the passage of the Children and Families Act 2014, has agreed to chair the event.
ACRCG will set out the progress made with government support to create a more effective framework to enable care leavers to obtain access to their care files and history and explain what remains to be done. Care leavers will contribute to highlight the implications of the varying practice across England and also set out what good practice achieves for them.
Details of three other roundtable event s to be held in Essex, Birmingham and Manchester in July 2015
Details of three other roundtable events to be held in Bristol, Leeds and Newcastle in early Autumn 2015 will be released shortly.