Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 24
24
Accepted
Set out plan to monitor children's social care market reforms and update Parliament annually.
Recommendation
The Department for Education should set out how it will monitor the impact of its reforms to the children’s social care market and commit to updating Parliament on an annual basis on the impact they are having. (Recommendation, Paragraph 59)
Government Response Summary
The government commits to closely monitoring the impact of its children's social care market reforms, updating Parliament on their progress in the usual way, and sharing formal evaluation reports with the Committee as they are published.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
We will be closely monitoring the impact of our reforms to the children’s social care placement market. As set out in ‘Keeping Children Safe, Helping Families Thrive’, these reforms aim to deliver a more sustainable and functional placement market and bring down profiteering from some private providers. We will be carefully monitoring their impact on the market and, as set out in further detail in response to Recommendation 26 (below) to inform our decision about whether a profit cap should be implemented. Ministers will update Parliament on the progress of these reforms in the usual way. Elements of our reform package, such as the Regional Care Cooperatives pathfinders, are subject to formal evaluation. We will share these evaluation reports with the Committee as they are published.