Require field social workers to visit looked after children every eight weeks

WATE-(11) Response Historic AI-assessed

Require field social workers to visit looked after children every eight weeks

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.

Published Evidence Summary

The following publicly available evidence relates to this recommendation:

No specific published evidence regarding requirements for field social worker visits to looked after children or the government's response to this recommendation has been identified from the provided official sources. A search on legislation.gov.uk for 'Waterhouse Inquiry' returned no results. The most recent evidence available is the search interface for gov.uk content.

How was this assessed?

Assessed by gemini-2.5-flash on 24 Mar 2026

Checked data held on this site (government responses, progress updates, independent evidence)

External sources searched: www.gov.uk, www.legislation.gov.uk, hansard.parliament.uk

Jurisdiction

UK-wide