er the child to ensure his or her personal education plan (PEP) is developed and implemented. Distant placement: Regulation 11(5) of the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review Regulations (England) 2010 as amended defines a distant placement as meaning ‘a placement outside the area of the responsible authority and not within the area of any adjoining local authority’. Distant placements must be approved by the responsible authority’s Director of Children’s Services (DCS). Eligible child: a looked-after child who is aged 16 or 17 and has been looked after by a local authority for a period of 13 weeks, or periods of 13 weeks, which began after he or she reached 14 and ended after he or she reached 16. Former relevant child: a former relevant child is a young person aged 18 or above who either has been a relevant child and would be one if under the age of 18 or who, immediately before he or she stopped being looked after at the age of 18, was an eligible child. Looked-after child: a child who is looked after by a local authority (referred to as a looked-after child) is defined in section 22 of the Children Act 1989 and means a child who is subject to a care order (or an interim care order) or who is accommodated by a local authority. Named health professional: providers of health services are expected to identify a named doctor and nurse for looked-after children. As well as coordinating the provision of services for individual children, named professionals provide advice and expertise for fellow professionals. The Royal Colleges’ intercollegiate framework includes model job descriptions for this and other specialist health professional roles. Originating authority (sometimes called the responsible or placing authority): the local authority that looks after the child. 40