inform its ongoing journey of improvement and excellence and is exploring the following next steps: 1. Agree an Essex Position Statement clearly communicating the rights of children in care and care leavers to access their story and records and describing the process; the statement to be available across the Access to Records web pages, the CiCC website and within the Local Offer 2. Co-design an information film exploring frequently asked questions for children in care and care leavers 3. Conversations about rights to access information (Life Stories and Records) to be brought into Life Plans, Pathway Plans and to Reviews 4. Virtual School to collaborate with the CiCC to develop training for schools 5. Access to Records to provide immediate signposting to care leavers accessing their records with an automatic reply email containing the link to direct care leavers to the Family Connect website 6. Use learning from this project to inform our current and developing work relating to Life Story Work, Life Story Books and Later Life Letters, and to develop and embed the ‘what happened on the day I came into care’ letter 7. Promote the recording of photographs, videos and audio and develop guidance for professionals around this 8. Support the project team to attend development and quadrant days to share learning 9. Develop a proposal on a care leaver exchange trip with Copenhagen to learn about difference and share developing practice 10. Support us to develop a proposal to host an international conference in 2024/25 bringing leaders in this field together to educate and empower; partners in this work would be UCL, MIRRA and University of Copenhagen 11. Explore the benefits and challenges of conducting a small test study pilot of giving care leavers a login to their CMS record