Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to hold integrated care boards to account to ensure that the National Framework for Children and Young People’s Continuing Care is implemented across all local areas.

The National Framework for Children and Young People’s Continuing Care, published by the Department in January 2016, is intended to support good practice locally, providing guidance for integrated care boards (ICBs) and local authorities on the process for assessing, deciding, and agreeing packages of care for children and young people.

ICBs are responsible for the provision and commissioning of services to meet the needs of their local populations. NHS England plans to capture children and young people’s continuing care activity data as part of the All Age Continuing Care Patient Level Dataset, due for implementation from April 2025, and is committed to supporting ICBs to implement the National Framework for Children and Young People’s Continuing Care.