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second-edition-therapeutic-child-care-standards-cofc-ccqi-2025.pdf These are essential for providers and commissioners to know… Many residential and foster care services describe themselves as offering therapeutic care but there has been no agreed standard available…

A contribution to the Public Accounts Committee Financial sustainability of children’s care homes Inquiry It is necessary to understand Residential Child Care as an economic bubble. In doing so we…

A new announcement by government is yet another reason for an Education Select Committee inquiry into Supported Accommodation. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/connecting-people-to-a-supported-accommodation-service The change removes a vital step in assessment of suitability and…

From trait to state: how Ofsted might consider conceptualising vulnerability for inspection and regulation This research was commissioned by Ofsted and carried out by Research in Practice, which is a…

A Bill to require local authorities to publish information about looked after children in distance placements; to require local authorities to develop and publish sufficiency plans in respect of their…

Regulating provider groups New powers to Ofsted - ‘parent undertakings’ for providers with multiple settings Ofsted ability to require provider to develop and implement an improvement plan when it is…

Dear Parliamentarians We are writing following spending some time reading the Commons and Lords debates regarding the Children’s Wellbeing Bill and Placements at distance bills. We are very concerned with…

A new commissioning ethos brings a new role as commissioner as ‘the glue’, ‘a facilitator’, ‘an enabler’ and ‘a connector’, providing ‘a population-eye view’ of issues, and using collaboration and…

All the state, national and local, has to do is wait for residential child care people with enormous knowledge and experience gathered over decades, to depart children's social care. It…