Children: Social Services
(asked on 25th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to prohibit subsidiaries of profit-making companies from contracting with local authorities to run child protection and other children's social care services.
This question was answered on 30th January 2017
The Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (Relevant Care Functions) (England) Regulations 2014 are clear that local authorities may not contract out child protection functions to any organisation that is operated for profit. The Government has no intention of revisiting the settled position on this matter.