ve in different households. It is a flexible order, able to accommodate a variety of shared care arrangements. The intention is that both parents should feel they have a continuing role to play in relation to their children, on a defined basis, if necessary. Making of an arrangement order in favour of one parent does not take away parental responsibility from the other. 47 The children's services within local authorities have a power, but not a duty, to pay an allowance to the holder of the child arrangements order. Children placed on child arrangements orders are not looked-after children and they will not necessarily have been looked after prior to being placed on an arrangement order. In some cases, however, children who are looked-after will be placed on a child arrangement order when they cease to be looked-after. These children retain the educational entitlements they had while they were in care and will continue to have access to the VSH and the designated teacher. Special Guardianship Orders (SGOs) Special Guardianship is designed to provide children with greater security than long-term fostering without the absolute legal severance from the birth family which stems from an adoption order. Parents of a child cannot become a child’s special guardian. A court may make a guardianship order for a child on application of any guardian of the child, a local authority’s foster carer, or relative with whom the child has lived for at least one year before the application is made, or anyone with whom the child has lived for three of the last five years, anyone who has the consent of the relevant person who is named in a child arrangement order, the local authority if the child is in care or anyone else with parental responsibility. Children on an SGO are not defined as bei