Evaluation of Looked after Children's Mental Health Assessment Pilots

The Department for Education (DfE) is commissioning six to ten pilot sites to test improved approaches to the mental health and wellbeing assessments that looked after children receive when they enter care. The pilots will run for a period of two years, during which £650k of implementation support grant will be made available to assist the testing process. The evaluation of the pilots is to inform what, if any, changes are needed to the assessment system (including the statutory framework) for looked after childre...