ty’s students’ support service should be able to provide information on the type and level of practical and financial support available. 96 Appendix C Planning suitable accommodation for care leavers Tenure for 16/17 year olds C.1 One option is for the landlord to provide the minor with an agreement for a lease. This is effectively a promise to provide a lease at some point in the future such as the minor’s 18th birthday; it is a contract between the landlord and the minor whereby the landlord undertakes to provide the minor with a tenancy when he or she reaches 18 years of age. The agreement would include the terms of the lease. Where there is an agreement for a lease and the “tenant” takes up occupation of the accommodation this will create an equitable tenancy. An equitable tenancy is not a legal tenancy and does not convey an estate in land. However, both the landlord and the tenant would be able to seek to enforce the terms of the tenancy in the courts. C. 2 Another option is for the landlord to grant a legal tenancy to a trustee to hold on behalf of the minor until he or she reaches 18. The trustee could, for example, be an adult member of the young person’s family. It is open to the local authority to act as the trustee unless the same local authority will also be the young person’s landlord. It is established that a minor’s landlord should not hold the tenancy on trust for them because the roles of trustee and enforcing landlord conflict, which among other things would prevent the landlord from recovering possession of the property. It follows from this that in unitary local authorities with their own social housing stock, children’s services should not act as trustee for young residents of local authority property. 97 Appendix D Good practice promoting care lea