ation schedule: children in need of help and protection and care leavers and Local Safeguarding Children Boards (Ofsted 2017) • National Association of Virtual School Heads • National Network for the Education of Care Leavers - Higher education activities and resources for care leavers, children in care and those who support them • The National Children's Bureau Research • The impact of virtual schools on the educational progress of looked-after children (Research and analysis, Ofsted, 2012) • The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Looked-After Children and Care Leavers: Education Matters in Care. A report by the independent cross-party inquiry into the educational attainment of looked-after children in England. • Attachment aware schools (Bath Spa University) • The educational progress of looked-after children in England: linking care and educational data (Rees Centre) • Looked-after children: good practice in schools (Ofsted, 2008) Practice Tools • Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) teaching-learning-toolkit - This provides useful information and evidence on effectiveness of types of support which can be facilitated by pupil premium funding. Mental Health • Adoption Support Fund (ASF) - The ASF was established to help pay for essential therapeutic services for adoptive families as and when they need it. It is available for children up to, and including, the age of 21 (or 25 with an EHC Plan) who have 34 been adopted from local authority care in England or adopted from Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland but living in England. From 1 April 2016, the Fund became available for intercountry adoptions (once the placement has been made and the child is in England) and for Special Guardians who care for children who were looked-after immediately prior to the Special Guardians