PART 6LOOKED AFTER AND ACCOMMODATED CHILDREN
Leaving care, accommodation and fostering
C1I1114Support for category 5 young people and former category 5 young people
1
The responsible local authority for a category 5 young person must consider whether the conditions in subsection (2) are satisfied in relation to the young person.
2
The conditions are that—
a
the young person needs support of a kind which it can give under this section, and
b
the local authority is satisfied that the person by whom the young person was being looked after does not have the necessary facilities for advising or befriending him or her.
3
If the conditions are satisfied the local authority must advise and befriend the young person and may give that person support in the manner described in subsection (4).
4
The support may be given—
a
in kind;
b
by contributing to expenses incurred by the young person in living near the place where he or she is, or will be, employed or seeking employment;
c
by contributing to expenses incurred by the young person in living near the place where he or she is, or will be, receiving education or training;
d
by making a grant to the young person to enable him or her to meet expenses connected with his or her education or training;
e
by providing accommodation, if support may not be given in respect of the accommodation under paragraphs (b) to (d);
f
in cash.
5
A local authority may also give support in the manner described in paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection (4) to a young person who—
a
is under the age of 25, and
b
would be a category 5 young person if he or she were under the age of 21.
6
Where a local authority is giving support in the manner described in subsection (4)(c) or (d) it may disregard any interruption in the young person's pursuance of a programme of education or training if it is satisfied that the young person will resume the programme as soon as is reasonably practicable.
7
Where a local authority is satisfied that a young person for whom it may provide support under subsection (4) or (5) is in full-time further or higher education and needs accommodation during a vacation because term-time accommodation is not available, it must—
a
provide the person with suitable accommodation during the vacation, or
b
pay the person enough to secure such accommodation.