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
36 Recommendations
23 Conclusions
1 Report
6 Oral sessions
2 Letters
6 Events
Activity timeline 16 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 Mar
2022
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 15, Palace of Westminster
1 Feb
2022
Oral evidence
1 Feb
2022
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 15, Palace of Westminster
11 Jan
2022
Oral evidence
11 Jan
2022
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 15, Palace of Westminster
16 Nov
2021
Oral evidence
16 Nov
2021
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Room 15, Palace of Westminster
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
2 results
Clear
51 Conclusion Rejected
Second Report - Educational povert…
Just 2% of care leavers go on to do an apprenticeship.
Just 2% of care leavers go on to do an apprenticeship. To address this, the Department must strategically weigh the apprenticeship levy in favour of care-experienced young apprentices under age 25. Too much of the levy is going unspent, the … Read more
Government Response
The government acknowledges the barriers faced by care leavers in apprenticeships and describes existing bursaries and employer incentives. However, it rejects weighing the apprenticeship levy in favor of care-experienced young apprentices and increasing the apprentice minimum wage, stating that employers should pay wages and the Low Pay Commission sets minimum wages.
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52 Recommendation Rejected
Second Report - Educational povert…
Where a care leaver is over 25, and an apprenticeship would be their first qualification...
Where a care leaver is over 25, and an apprenticeship would be their first qualification since leaving compulsory education, the Department must raise the age limit for receipt of the £1,000 apprenticeship bursary from age 25 to age 30. This … Read more
Government Response
The government believes that 25 is a reasonable point of transition and that targeting support on care leavers aged 18–24 to help them as they move to independent living is the best use of resources, so they will not raise the age limit for the apprenticeship bursary.
Department for Education
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Government Response AI assessment · 57 of 36 classified
Accepted 14
Accepted in Part 2
Acknowledged 13
Deferred 21
Not Addressed 5
Rejected 2
Total 36 recs + 23 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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