Currently unregulated services for 16- and 17-year-old children in care and care leavers would be inspected a third as often as children's homes, says the DfE
Claire Coutinho, minister for children, families and wellbeing, has confirmed that the government’s implementation strategy for delivering reforms to children’s social care will be published early next year, rather than before Christmas as planned.
The children’s social care sector has praised retailer John Lewis’s Christmas advert over the company’s portrayal of “what good care can and should look like”.
The Department for Education has finalised the board responsible for implementing the Care Review recommendations, but some sector leaders have criticised the lack of members with direct care experience.
Campaigners have hit out at a decision by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to support the government's refusal to publish a report containing information about the deaths of children in care despite complaints from the sector.