Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Independent Review of Children's Social Care published in May 2022, if he will make it his policy to implement the recommendations of that report on provision of residential placements.

The department is now carefully assessing all of the recommendations made by the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, including on the provision of residential placements. We are establishing a National Implementation Board, which will respond with an implementation plan by the end of the year.