You should receive a passport when you become looked after in St Helens. Your IRO will check that you have your passport at your review meetings. The local authority will pay for your passport while you are in care and you will also receive a passport when you are a care leaver.

If you have had a name change and you need a deed poll certificate, the local authority will fund this for you.

The local authority will fund your driving licence as a form of identification for you. This will also allow you to start driving, which we help you with. If you are a care leaver aged 17-25 and you are in education/employment and training for at least three months, the local authority will fund 20 driving lessons, one theory test and one practical test.

If you are a care leaver who has been granted asylum in the UK, the local authority will fund your residence permit.

When you are looked after by the local authority, you should receive life story work from your social worker to understand your life story. This may be during visits or you may receive a book.

A lot of young people, when they are older, want to access their social care records to answer questions that may not have been answered when they were a child. If you want to access your records, please speak to your personal adviser. They will give you details of how to do this and will support you when you receive this information.