Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to help reform children’s social care services; and if she will make a statement.

The department committed to review the children’s social care system, so that children’s outcomes can be improved. Earlier this year, three reviews were published that provide an opportunity to reset children’s social care and make the urgent progress children need.

The department is rapidly working up a detailed implementation strategy in response to the reviews and this will be published in early 2023. The implementation strategy will set out the steps we are taking to reform children’s social care services.