Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the new National Implementation Board will take into account the views of children in local authority care when it considers the recommendations of the Independent Review of Children's Social Care.

The department is considering the recommendations made in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care carefully with those with care experience and all interested stakeholders. We will publish an implementation strategy later this year, which will set out how the department will improve children’s social care. This will include establishing a National Implementation Board that includes people with their own experience of the care system.