Part 1: Children Chapter 1: Looked after children Section 5: Maintained schools: staff member for previously looked after children
76 This section adds a new section 20A to the Children and Young Persons Act 2008. Subsection (1) places a duty on the governing body of a maintained school in England to designate a member of staff at the school to have responsibility for promoting the educational achievement of certain previously looked after pupils. Under subsection (2), the ‘relevant pupils’ for whom the designated staff member will have responsibility are those who are no longer looked after as a result of an adoption order, a special guardianship or child arrangements order, and children who appear to the governing body to have been adopted from state care outside England and Wales.
	Subsection (3) gives the Secretary of State the power to make regulations to prescribe the necessary qualifications or experience of the designated member of staff.
	Subsection (4) requires the governing body to have regard to any guidance issued by the Secretary of State.
	Subsection (5) defines "looked after" and subsection (6) defines the meanings of "maintained school" and "registered pupil"