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<p>The available published information on EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) applications
and concluded applications by the applicant’s age and nationality to 31 December 2019,
can be found in the Home Office’s ‘EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics’, statistics
tables, tables EUSS_01, EUSS_02 and EUSS_04, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-quarterly-statistics-december-2019"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/eu-settlement-scheme-quarterly-statistics-december-2019</a>.</p><p>The
Home Office has been engaging with relevant stakeholders such as the Department for
Education, Local Government Association and Association of Directors of Children’s
Services to assess the needs of looked-after children and care leavers and ensure
they are supported.</p><p>To support this, guidance about the EUSS to help local authorities
and Health and Social Care Trusts understand their responsibilities for supporting
looked-after children and care leavers and how to apply has been created and issued.</p><p>A
New Burdens Assessment has been produced in collaboration with key stakeholders representing
local authorities and children’s social services to ensure they are adequately funded
to support looked after children and care leavers who are eligible to apply to the
EU Settlement Scheme.</p><p>The Home Office has been holding monthly teleconferences
for local authority staff who are undertaking this work. The teleconferences provide
a forum to obtain information, ask questions and raise issues. A designated help line
number has also been made available for local authority staff to contact trained caseworkers
in the Home Office should they need to discuss any aspect of the EU Settlement Scheme,
be it a specific case issue, or a matter of general information.</p>
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