Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's consultation outcome entitled Children's social care: stable homes, built on love, published on 21 September 2023, if she will expand the implementation of that consultation outcome to more local authority areas.
Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The department is committed to laying the foundations for a comprehensive and long-term reform plan to children’s social care over the two years immediately following the publication of its implementation strategy ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’. The department will be refreshing its strategy at the end of this point. The department is halfway through this first phase of reform, and has made significant progress on many of the commitments made in the strategy.
In December 2023, the department published the first national kinship care strategy ‘Championing Kinship Care’, a ‘Children’s Social Care National Framework’, a revised statutory guidance ‘Working together to safeguard children’ and a data strategy.
Through these publications, the department is monitoring the implementation of its reform programme and has set out how local authorities’ and partners’ roles and responsibilities will change through new national expectations, and further explained their role in delivering ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’.
The ‘test and learn’ approach the department is taking through its pathfinder pilots will ensure that the department will find the most efficient models of delivery, providing the best possible outcomes for children and families. When the department comes to expand and roll out programmes across more local authorities’ areas, it wants to ensure reform delivery is supported by the evidence that it works.
Correspondence Apr. 26 2024
Committee: Public Services CommitteeFound: and Wellbeing to Baroness Morris of Yardley, Chair, Public Services Committee on Children's Social Care
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Evaluation of virtual school heads (VSHs)Found: CLA Children Looked After CP Child Protection CPP Child Protection Plan CSC Children’s Social Care
Oral Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)Found: is kinship carers.
Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) they leave care, and one in four homeless people have been in care at some point in their lives, as - Speech Link
2: None system and care leavers is not on. - Speech Link
3: None me to add the families of kinship carers to that category. - Speech Link
4: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) it would be effective.Helping care leavers to make a successful transition from care to independence - Speech Link
Correspondence Apr. 23 2024
Committee: Constitution CommitteeFound: • Is late exploration of family and friends as a potential alternative care option for children contributing
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.Found: fostering couple where: o a foster child under 16 is placed with them o a qualifying young person ’s care
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.Found: pension protection fund payments • claimant s must declare Welsh Basic Income Scheme payments for care
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.Found: otherwise be likely to be looked after by the local authority • a kinship care arrangement for
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.Found: Fair Start Scotland tackles barriers to work by linking up with health and social care providers and