Children's Homes

Education Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 15 Mar 2021 Closed: 16 Feb 2023 Parliament page
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 … Read more
38 Recommendations
21 Conclusions
1 Report
6 Oral sessions
2 Letters
6 Events
Activity timeline 10 events
10 Nov
2022
Report published
6 Sep
2022
Correspondence
6 Sep
2022
Correspondence
8 Jul
2022
Report published
1 Mar
2022
Oral evidence
1 Feb
2022
Oral evidence
11 Jan
2022
Oral evidence
16 Nov
2021
Oral evidence
19 Oct
2021
Oral evidence
20 Jul
2021
Oral evidence
Oral evidence sessions 6 sessions
1 Mar 2022
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Children's Homes - Ministerial session
Fran Oram · Department for Education Will Quince · Department for Education
1 Feb 2022
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Children's Home - young people session
11 Jan 2022
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Children's Homes
Dame Rachel de Souza · Inspiration Trust Dame Rachel de Souza · Office of the Children's Commissioner for England Juliette Cammaerts · Office of the Children's Commissioner for England Yvette Stanley · Ofsted
16 Nov 2021
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Children's Homes - third session
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
19 Oct 2021
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Children's Homes - second session
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
20 Jul 2021
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Children's Homes
Anne Longfield, Former Children’s Commissioner Josh MacAlister, Independent Review of Children’s Social Care The Rt Hon. the Lord Adonis
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Second Report - Educational poverty: how children in residential… HC 57 8 Jul 2022 59 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
3 results
Clear
8 Recommendation Accepted in Part
Second Report - Educational povert…
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 … Read more
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 Report provided to Ofsted.
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16 Recommendation Accepted in Part
Second Report - Educational povert…
The needs of looked-after pupils do not suddenly cease to exist when they turn
The needs of looked-after pupils do not suddenly cease to exist when they turn
Government Response
The government acknowledges the importance of continued support for care leavers, having launched a £3 million pilot for Pupil Premium Plus style funding and allocated £36 million to extend the Staying Close programme. A comprehensive implementation strategy will address this and other recommendations.
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24 Recommendation Accepted in Part
Second Report - Educational povert…
Access to specialist mental health support is essential in supporting children in care, and the...
Access to specialist mental health support is essential in supporting children in care, and the Government must commit to funding specialist mental health support for every school. It must also invest targeted funding to fully level-up spend per-child on mental … Read more
Government Response
The government acknowledged the importance of specialist mental health support, stating that they are investing an additional £2.3 billion per year by 2023/24, to allow 345,000 children and young people to access NHS-funded mental health services and supporting every school and college to access mental health training backed by £1.4 billion but did not commit to funding specialist mental health support for every school or reducing mental health waiting lists to one month.
Department for Education
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Government Response AI assessment · 59 of 38 classified
Accepted 14
Accepted in Part 3
Acknowledged 13
Deferred 21
Not Addressed 6
Rejected 2
Total 38 recs + 21 conclusions
Correspondence 2 letters
6 Sep 2022 Correspondence from the Schools Adjudicator on the Children’s Homes Report, dated 5 August
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6 Sep 2022 Correspondence from Ofsted on Calcot Children’s Homes and safeguarding procedures, dated 4 August
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