Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 4
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Ensure care-experienced young people's full engagement and involvement in social care accountability mechanisms.
Conclusion
The Department should ensure that it is engaging with care-experienced young people in all areas of its work on children’s social care and should encourage local authorities to do the same. The Department for Education, 82 Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission should ensure that care- experienced young people are involved in accountability mechanisms for the quality of children’s social care services and care leavers’ support. (Recommendation, Paragraph 11)
Government Response
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