Part 1: Children Chapter 1: Looked after children Section 2: Local offer for care leavers
Subsection (1) requires local authorities in England to publish information about the services which it offers to care leavers as a result of its duties under the Children Act 1989 and other services it offers to everyone, that may assist care leavers in or in preparing for adulthood and independent living.
	Subsection (2) sets out certain service areas as being the kinds of services that may assist care leavers in, or in preparing for adulthood and independent living. These are: health and well-being; education and training; employment; accommodation; participation in society; and relationships.
	Subsection (3) confirms that the local offer for care leavers encompasses services offered by others which the local authority would have had the power to offer itself.
	Subsection (4) states that the information to be published is to be known as the local authority’s "local offer for care leavers". Subsection (5) requires a local authority to keep its local offer under review, and update it from time to time. Before publishing its local offer, or any updated version of it, under subsection (6) a local authority has to consult persons who appear to it to be representative of care leavers in its area, about which local authority services may assist care leavers in, or in preparing for, adulthood and independent living.
	Subsection (7) defines "care leavers" by reference to the the Children Act 1989 definitions as either ‘eligible children’, ‘relevant children’, ‘persons under 25 who are ‘former relevant children’ and those who qualify for advice and assistance under section 24 of the Children Act 1989.