Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2015 to Question 220175, on what occasions her Department has intervened when a local authority had not complied with its statutory responsibility of meeting the six-week regulation for visits of children since 2010.

There are no occasions, since 2010, on which the Department for Education has intervened when a local authority has not complied with its statutory responsibility of meeting the six-week regulation for visits of privately fostered children.

The Department for Education intervenes when Ofsted finds performance has failed across a number of areas within a local authority’s provision of children’s social care. Local authorities are required to complete an annual statistical return giving details of private fostering arrangements known to them.