Looked after children and young people (wherever they are looked after) from birth until age 18.

Including:

• Children and young people who are looked after on a planned, temporary basis for short breaks or respite care purposes, only if the Children Act 1989 (section 20) applies and the child or young person is temporarily classed as looked after.
• Children and young people living at home with birth parents but under a full or interim local authority care order and are subject to looked-after children and young people processes and statutory duties.
• Children and young people in a prospective adoptive placement.
• Children and young people preparing to leave care.
• Looked-after children and young people on remand, detained in secure youth custody and those serving community orders.

Health and social care interventions and approaches to support readiness for school in looked-after children and young people, prior to, or during entry into pre-school, primary school, or secondary school education.

Example interventions and approaches of interest include:

• Interventions to promote readiness for pre-school (early years) education (including interventions delivered in the home/nursery setting by education specialists)
• Interventions to promote readiness for primary school
• Interventions to promote readiness for secondary school
• Interventions to promote positive relationships (as relates to their impact on educational outcomes)
• Transition programmes
• Teacher-delivered and carer-delivered interventions
• School-based and home-based interventions
• Tutoring programmes
• Coaching and mentoring
• Other pedagogical interventions (e.g. ready for school packages, such as “Letterbox”)

• Preschool developmental progress (e.g. achieving age-appropriate “good level of development” (GLD))
• Educational outcomes (academic skills; academic achievement; grade achievement; homework completion; school attendance)
• Adverse events (school absence, school exclusion or suspension)
• Behavioural, cognitive, and social functioning at school
• Knowledge and beliefs about school and education