Educational Achievements

HC Deb 12 July 1995 vol 263 cc665-6W

Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what research her Department has carried out into the educational achievements of young people who have left care. [33833]

Mr. Forth

The Department has not commissioned research on the educational achievements of young people after they left local authority care. A special study of the educational difficulties and needs of young people while in care was undertaken by HM inspectorate and the social services inspectorate jointly in 1994¹, whose emerging findings informed joint Department for Education-Department of Health guidance' on good practice in this field. Copies of these publications may be found in the Library. The Education of Children who are Looked After by Local Authorities (Department of Health & Ofsted, 1995) ²The Education of Children being looked after by Local Authorities (DFE Circular 13/94 DH LAC (94) 11).