Require field social workers to visit looked after children every eight weeks
Waterhouse Inquiry · Waterhouse Inquiry — Final Report · Issued 15 February 2000
Government responseNot tracked (historical inquiry)
DeliveryNo statement from the addressee found
Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
Field social workers should be required by regulation to visit any looked after child for whom they are responsible not less than once every eight weeks916. In the case of older children, they should be required also to see the child alone and at intervals away from their residential or foster home.
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Government response
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Delivery
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