Children in Care

(asked on 17th June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to raise the profile of the Care Planning and Fostering Regulations and Guidance among local authorities.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 24th June 2015

The government has made a series of important reforms to improve permanence for looked after children. We gave these reforms a high profile launch at the British Association of Adoption and Fostering conference on permanence in October 2014, where they formed the centrepiece of my speech.

The Care Planning and Fostering (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 and associated guidance came into force on 1 April 2015. We have promoted these reforms to local authorities via the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) bulletin in March 2015; and again through the Department for Education’s official communication to local authority Directors of Children’s Services, Chief Executives and Lead Members earlier this month.

The Care Planning and Fostering (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 have been published online here: www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/495/made and www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/416720/Stat_Guidance_Permanence_2015.pdf

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