Sentence examples for a looked after from inspiring English sources

What follows is a long, protracted dispute about whether or not the child was a "looked after" child.

The key point here is this: as a looked after young person with a deeply traumatic past, I didn't need highly trained professional carers or those who were in it for the money.

"A looked after child or a child who's in the care of his or her family - there should be no difference," he said.

Anyone have a bridge that needs looking after?

It gives it a smooth looking after-look.

As a looked-after child, Dan could have gone to any local authority school he chose.

I am biased, I admit it: I have experience of being a looked-after child.

Child E became a looked-after child when she was 12 after growing up in an abusive family to parents with mental health problems.

Delay in finalising a permanent plan for a "looked-after child" is known to compound the harm caused by abuse in the family home.

It can only be disappointing if adoption has not been achieved for a looked-after child who needed this type of care.

Martin Narey, the government's adoption adviser, claims the provisions would not affect the local authority's duties to prioritise placing a looked-after child with a suitable parent or wider family member over a prospective adopter and that he "would not have urged the reform on ministers were it to do so".