Send private and voluntary care inspection reports to relevant placing authorities

WATE-(52) Response Historic

Send private and voluntary care inspection reports to relevant placing authorities

Recommendation

Copies of reports of inspections of private and voluntary children's homes and of private residential schools should be sent to the Director of Social Services of any placing authority with a child at the school and of the authority in whose area the establishment is located.

Published Evidence Summary

The following publicly available evidence relates to this recommendation:

No specific, publicly available evidence mandating that copies of private and voluntary care inspection reports be sent to relevant placing authorities has been identified from the provided official sources. Searches on gov.uk and legislation.gov.uk for Waterhouse Inquiry related documents did not yield specific policies on report distribution.

How was this evidence gathered?

Evidence searched 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