Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2023 to Question 148681 on Children in Care: Equality, which organisations attended the roundtable discussions held by her Department.

Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.

In developing the Care Experience chapter of Stable Homes: Built on Love, the department held two roundtable discussions with organisations representing the care sector. The organisations were:

• Action for Children
• Association of Directors of Children’s Services
• Barnardo’s
• Become
• Care Leavers Association
• Career Matters
• Catch 22
• Coram Voice
• Drive Forward
• House Project
• Just 4 Kids Law
• National Association of Virtual School Heads
• National Children’s Bureau
• National Youth Advocacy Service
• Office of the Children’s Commissioner
• Ofsted
• Rees Foundation
• Spectra.

To enable the most robust and constructive exchange of views possible, these conversations were held in confidence.