uthority area. This may mean that it is made available in a number of formats including printed hard copies, online digital copies and in different languages as appropriate. We would also expect Personal Advisers to share and promote the local offer with the care leavers they work with and to make sure they are aware of it and the services they are entitled to. Local authorities will want to consider how the local offer is made available to, and is easily understood by, care leavers with additional needs. The precise arrangements for consulting care leavers and the format(s) that the local offer is available in are for local authorities to determine. Local authorities are best placed to decide: how to consult care leavers in a way that is meaningful; and to decide in which formats the local offer should be available. Care leavers living or placed outside of their local authority Some young people who were placed out of area while they were looked-after may wish to remain in that area once they leave care – for example, if they want to Stay Put with their former foster carer. In these circumstances, the well-established convention is that the ‘placing’ LA continues to meet any costs associated with their on-going support. The requirement to produce a local offer does not alter that long-standing approach and we would expect the local offer to apply equally to those young people. We think there may also be situations where LAs could consider opening up some elements of their local offer to care leavers who are living in their area but who have been placed there, and are supported, by another LA. For example, LAs may allow care leavers to take advantage of some of the discretionary support they provide, such as giving care leavers free access to their leisure services, or 