May. 16 2024
Source Page: I. Draft Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health education: Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, teachers. 44p. II. Review of the Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health education statutory guidance. Government consultation. 27p. III. Letter dated 16/05/2024 from Gillian Keegan MP to the Deposited papers clerk regarding the above documents for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.Found: children, and can include single parent families, same- sex parents, families headed by grandparents, kinship
Mentions:
1: Whitfield, Martin (Lab - South Scotland) In a situation in which a child cannot be cared for by their birth parent or by kinship carers such as - Speech Link
2: Don, Natalie (SNP - Renfrewshire North and West) However, last August I was able to introduce the Scottish recommended allowance for foster and kinship - Speech Link
Oral Evidence Apr. 30 2024
Inquiry: Children’s social careFound: Lots of families say they struggling to get respite care, they are struggling to get long-term care
Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: Children’s Social Work Statistics 2022-23 – Looked After ChildrenFound: Number and rate per 1,000 of young people ceasing to be looked after with a destination of Continuing Care
Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: Children’s Social Work Statistics 2022-23 – Looked After ChildrenFound: plan by placement type, on 31 July 2023 [Note 1]Care plan statusAt homeAway from homeTotal With Kinship
Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: Children’s Social Work Statistics 2022-23 – Looked After ChildrenFound: On 31 July 2023, the most common placements away from home were kinship care (34%), foster care (32%)
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's consultation outcome entitled Children's social care: stable homes, built on love, published on 21 September 2023, what steps she is taking to monitor the implementation of the recommendations of that consultation by local authorities.
Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The department is committed to laying the foundations for a comprehensive and long-term reform plan to children’s social care over the two years immediately following the publication of its implementation strategy ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’. The department will be refreshing its strategy at the end of this point. The department is halfway through this first phase of reform, and has made significant progress on many of the commitments made in the strategy.
In December 2023, the department published the first national kinship care strategy ‘Championing Kinship Care’, a ‘Children’s Social Care National Framework’, a revised statutory guidance ‘Working together to safeguard children’ and a data strategy.
Through these publications, the department is monitoring the implementation of its reform programme and has set out how local authorities’ and partners’ roles and responsibilities will change through new national expectations, and further explained their role in delivering ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’.
The ‘test and learn’ approach the department is taking through its pathfinder pilots will ensure that the department will find the most efficient models of delivery, providing the best possible outcomes for children and families. When the department comes to expand and roll out programmes across more local authorities’ areas, it wants to ensure reform delivery is supported by the evidence that it works.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's consultation outcome entitled Children's social care: stable homes, built on love, published on 21 September 2023, if she will expand the implementation of that consultation outcome to more local authority areas.
Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The department is committed to laying the foundations for a comprehensive and long-term reform plan to children’s social care over the two years immediately following the publication of its implementation strategy ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’. The department will be refreshing its strategy at the end of this point. The department is halfway through this first phase of reform, and has made significant progress on many of the commitments made in the strategy.
In December 2023, the department published the first national kinship care strategy ‘Championing Kinship Care’, a ‘Children’s Social Care National Framework’, a revised statutory guidance ‘Working together to safeguard children’ and a data strategy.
Through these publications, the department is monitoring the implementation of its reform programme and has set out how local authorities’ and partners’ roles and responsibilities will change through new national expectations, and further explained their role in delivering ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’.
The ‘test and learn’ approach the department is taking through its pathfinder pilots will ensure that the department will find the most efficient models of delivery, providing the best possible outcomes for children and families. When the department comes to expand and roll out programmes across more local authorities’ areas, it wants to ensure reform delivery is supported by the evidence that it works.
Correspondence Apr. 26 2024
Committee: Public Services CommitteeFound: and Wellbeing to Baroness Morris of Yardley, Chair, Public Services Committee on Children's Social Care
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Evaluation of virtual school heads (VSHs)Found: CLA Children Looked After CP Child Protection CPP Child Protection Plan CSC Children’s Social Care