The purpose of the team is to work closely with schools,
Social Care and Health and other agencies in order to:
Ensure that the specific needs of Looked After Children are
accurately identified.
Assist in raising the educational standards achieved by
these children.
Promote an improved understanding of the issues that affect
Looked After Children by contributing to the training of teachers, social
workers and foster carers.
GCSE Centre
The centre caters for the specific needs of children in care
who have become excluded or disaffected from mainstream education.
Intensive support is offered to enable young people to re-engage in education
through success in GCSE and GNVQ examinations.
The centre works closely with schools, colleges and other
agencies to enable young people to continue on to mainstream programmes of
study, training or employment.
Planned expansion of the project includes the delivery of
courses preparing care leavers to live independently, literacy support
programmes for children aged nine to eleven and an increase in the range of
GCSE and GNVQs offered.
Referral Procedures
Each school has a named RALAC link worker. Referrals or requests for advice may be made by the
designated teacher in the school concerned, or by other agencies, such as
Social Care and Health Directorate, who are working directly with the child.
Contact us
Tel: 0116 223 2302
Fax: 0116 2232337
Email: ralac@leicester.gov.uk
