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Children's Homes

Status: Closed Opened: 15 Mar 2021 Closed: 16 Feb 2023 14 recommendations 45 conclusions 1 report

The inquiry will focus on children’s homes. It will examine a number of areas including educational outcomes and destinations, the quality of support provided by children’s homes, unregulated provision, rates of criminalisation, the sufficiency of children’s home places, and the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read the call for evidence for more detail about the …

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Second Report - Educational poverty: how children in reside… HC 57 8 Jul 2022 59 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

2 items
2 Recommendation Second Report - Educational poverty: ho… Accepted

The Department must annually publish statistics on looked-after children, disaggregated by placement type, including key...

The Department must annually publish statistics on looked-after children, disaggregated by placement type, including key metrics on gender, ethnicity, age, special educational needs, and rates of out-of-area placements. (Paragraph 6) Overcoming the odds: education outcomes and the lack of post-16 funding

Government response. The Department will publish the recommended breakdowns in the 2023 releases, in conjunction with the department’s policy on confidentiality. They have committed to publishing additional stability analysis in November 2022.
Department for Education
53 Conclusion Second Report - Educational poverty: ho… Accepted

The current lack of statutory support for young people leaving residential care is deeply unjust.

The current lack of statutory support for young people leaving residential care is deeply unjust. The Department’s own evidence rightly acknowledges the “cliff- edge” transition from residential care to independent living at age 18. Staying Close offers a chance to fix this and the pilot has shown promising results including …

Government response. The government has announced funding of £36 million over the next 3 years to extend the Staying Close programme and has asked the What Work’s Centre for Children’s Social Care (WWCSC) to evaluate its effectiveness.
Department for Education

Oral evidence sessions

6 sessions
Date Witnesses
1 Mar 2022 Fran Oram · Department for Education, Will Quince · Department for Education View ↗
1 Feb 2022 Children's Home - young people session View ↗
11 Jan 2022 Dame Rachel de Souza · Office of the Children's Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza · Inspiration Trust, Juliette Cammaerts · Office of the Children's Commissioner for England, Yvette Stanley · Ofsted View ↗
16 Nov 2021 Andrew Isaac · Children’s Services Development Group, Charlotte Ramsden OBE · Association of Directors of Children’s Services, Jonathan Whalley · St Christopher’s Fellowship, Michelle Lee-Izu · Barnardo’s View ↗
19 Oct 2021 Hannah McCowen · National Care Leavers Benchmarking Forum, and Catch 22, Mark Russell · The Children’s Society, Patrick Ward · National Association of Virtual School Headteachers (NAVSH), Victoria Langer · Become View ↗
20 Jul 2021 Anne Longfield, Former Children’s Commissioner, Josh MacAlister, Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, The Rt Hon. the Lord Adonis View ↗

Correspondence

2 letters
DateDirectionTitle
6 Sep 2022 — Correspondence from the Schools Adjudicator on the Children’s Homes Report, dat…
6 Sep 2022 — Correspondence from Ofsted on Calcot Children’s Homes and safeguarding procedur…