While you're in care, you may hear words and phrases that you don't understand.
Click on the terms below to find out what they mean.
- Child and Family Court Advisory Support Service (CAFACSS)
- Assessment
- Behaviour Management
- Care Leaver
- Care Order
- Children Act (1989)
- Children in Care Council (CiCC)
- Confidentiality
- Consultation
- Contact
- Contingency Plan
- Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP)
- Emergency Protection Order
- Fostering Allowance
- Foster Placement
- Independence / Independent Living
- Best Interest
- Kinship Care
- Local Authority
- Looked After Child
- Looked After Child (LAC)/Children in Care (CIC) Review
- Minutes
- Out of County Placements
- Participation
- Pathway Plan
- Permanence Plan
- Placement
- Private Fostering
- Resilience
- Risk Assessment
- Staying Put Arrangement
- Virtual School