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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

1 item
8 Recommendation Second Report - Educational poverty: ho… Accepted in Part

Local authorities must annually report to Ofsted, accounting for how every penny of their Pupil...

Local authorities must annually report to Ofsted, accounting for how every penny of their Pupil Premium Plus grant is being spent. The Department must strengthen its guidance on the grant, stipulating that all funding must be allocated via the Virtual School Head, and the Virtual School Head be awarded powers …

Government response. The department will consider further changes to the guidance and specifically whether it should stipulate that the VSH must sign-off on all use of the funding and whether more detailed financial information should be included in the Virtual School Annual …
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…