Recommendation WATE-(11): Require field social workers to visit looked after children every eight weeks

From Waterhouse Inquiry — Final Report, published 15 February 2000.

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.

Jurisdiction: UK-wide

Government response

No government response to this recommendation is on the record yet.

Delivery

No statement on delivery from the addressee has been found in the sources searched (last checked 27 February 2026). This is separate from the response above.

Source

Inquiry Waterhouse Inquiry

Report Waterhouse Inquiry — Final Report 15 Feb 2000

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Themes and tags

Underinvestment in Children's Social Care Vulnerable child care

Recommendation made 26.7 years ago