ocial care for assessment and for statutory services. In addition, local authorities, with their partners, should develop and publish local protocols for assessment, which set out clear arrangements for how cases will be managed once a child is referred into local authority children’s social care. 15 If there is evidence to suggest the child has moved to a different local authority area, contact should be made with the named person in the new authority using secure communication methods. The local authority should maintain a record of the child’s details until they are located or attain school leaving age. When the whereabouts and circumstances of a child is unclear or unknown, it is reasonable to expect that the local authority and the school will complete and record one or more of the following actions: • make contact with the parent, relatives and neighbours using known contact details; • check local databases within the local authority; • check Key to Success or school2school (s2s) systems; • follow local information sharing arrangements and where possible make enquiries via other local databases and agencies e.g. those of housing providers, school admissions, health services, police, refuge, Youth Justice Services, children’s social care, and HMRC; • check with UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) and/or the Border Force; • check with agencies known to be involved with family; • check with local authority and school from which child moved originally, if known; • check with any local authority and school to which a child may have moved; • check with the local authority where the child lives, if different from where the school is; • in the case of children of Service Personnel, check with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) Children’s Education Advisory Service (CEAS); and • ho