Children: Social Services

(asked on 6th February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2017 to Question 61766, if she will publish the supportive statements regarding the power to test different ways of working from the 15 organisations and individuals she lists in that Answer.


Answered by
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Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 9th February 2017

14 of the supportive statements regarding the power to test different ways of working are already available publically, in published policy documents, articles and Hansard. Links to these documents are provided below:

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-01-10/debates/7454bf55-0b80-46b9-ab65-675091bc9c4d/ChildrenAndSocialWorkBill(Lords)(FifthSitting)

https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2016-11-08/debates/5ABC82B8-3486-474C-8A9A-9445BBCD382E/ChildrenAndSocialWorkBill(HL)

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2016/10/13/scrapping-red-tape-safeguards-fight-future-childrens-services/

http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/files/DEP2016-0760/Power_to_innovate_-_policy_statement.pdf

http://adcs.org.uk/blog/article/the-power-to-innovate

The supporting statement from Ofsted has not been published previously, their statement reads:

“Carefully planned innovation can be an important part of improving outcomes for children. Ofsted has seen how good local authorities can make a difference for children when working more flexibly to meet a child's needs. While Ofsted does not take a view on any particular model for social work, there is merit in exploring how some flexibilities could improve outcomes for children.”

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