Select committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation 50
2nd Report - Human Rights of Children in the Social Care System in England
Published 27 Aug 2026
Addressed to Ministry of Justice
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
As a first step to address the complexity of the complaints system, the government must work with children, care leavers, their families, local authorities, the Children’s Commissioner, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, and other relevant stakeholders to raise awareness about children’s rights and the existing complaints processes to enforce them. To make it easier to navigate the complaints procedure, we have produced a flowchart (Annex D) indicating the main steps involved in raising complaints. (Recommendation, Paragraph 249)
From: Human Rights (Joint Committee), 2nd Report - Human Rights of Children in the Social Care System in England (HC 161), 27 August 2026
Government response
No government response linked yet: deadline 27 October 2026, 5 days ago.