Social Services: Children

(asked on 14th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 22 October 2019 to Question 686 on Social Services, whether he plans to include proposals to reform child social care in that Green Paper on social care.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 21st January 2020

Responsibility for proposals to reform children’s social care is for the Department for Education.

The Department for Education is investing to deliver high quality children’s social care and are bringing more local services out of inadequate ratings and delivering programmes to strengthen the social work workforce.

Alongside this, the Government is providing councils with an additional £1 billion for adults and children’s social care in every year of this Parliament. This is on top of investing £84 million over five years to keep more children at home safely. The Government is committed to undertaking a review of the care system for children and young adults. This review will allow the Department for Education to go even further, and to ensure that all care placements and settings provide children and young people with the support they need.

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