cal authority, as a corporate parent, the child’s social worker and health professionals should work with children’s home staff to secure and facilitate access to the health services that each child needs. In particular, social workers and other relevant officers in the authority responsible for a looked-after child should ensure the necessary health outcomes are clear in the child’s relevant plan and then work with the home to: • agree the specific responsibilities of the home towards supporting the health needs of each child at the time the placement is made • ensure that these responsibilities are recorded in the child’s placement plan. This must include recording permission from a person with parental responsibility for the child for staff to administer first aid and non-prescription medication, and clearly agreed responsibilities for the administration of prescription medication • be confident that staff in the home have sufficient understanding of relevant local health provision, including the functions of the designated doctor and nurse for looked-after children in their area, and can support children to navigate these services, advocating on their behalf where necessary and appropriate. Children detained under the Mental Health Act or in custody 87. The legal status of children who are the subject of a care order is not affected by detention under the Mental Health Act or in custody. The responsibility of the local authority to promote the welfare of looked-after children who are so detained remains. That includes its responsibilities to maintain and review the child’s health plan as part of his or her care plan.31 31 Children remanded to youth detention accommodation under section 104(1) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 become l