Part 1: Children Chapter 1: Looked after children Section 4: Duty of local authority in relation to previously looked after children
This section adds a new section 23ZZA into the Children Act 1989. Subsections (1) and (2) place a duty on local authorities in England to make advice and information available to those with parental responsibility, designated teachers in maintained schools and academies, and any other person the authority considers appropriate, for the purpose of promoting the educational achievement of relevant children. Subsection (6) defines relevant children as children who are no longer looked after by a local authority as a result of (as defined by the Children Act 1989), an adoption order, a special guardianship order or child arrangements order, and children who appear to the local authority to have been adopted from state care outside England and Wales.
	Subsection (3) also enables a local authority in England to do anything else which it considers appropriate with a view to promoting the educational achievement of relevant children in its area.
	Subsections (4) and (5) require the local authority to appoint an officer employed by them or another authority to discharge the duty to provide advice and information in subsections (1) and (2).
	Subsection (7) makes clear that duty will fall on the local authority responsible for the area where the child is receiving free early years provision, where they are attending school or where they are accessing alternative educational provision.