The Department for Education (DfE) has published a policy statement outlining the Government’s commitment to reforming the children’s social care system in England. The report sets out reforms aiming to help keep families together and children safe, such as offering family group decision making to all families and introducing measures to strengthen multi-agency child protection, including plans for greater involvement of the education sector. It also outlines reforms to make the care system child-centred and to tackle profiteering amongst placement providers through greater regulation, transparency and caps placed on profits. Other proposals include better support for kinship carers, foster carers and families with children who have disabilities; improved support for care leavers up to the age of 25; and the introduction of a Single Unique Identifier for children to help improve multi-agency information sharing.
Read the policy statement: Keeping children safe, helping families thrive: breaking down barriers to opportunity
Source: DfE
Date published: 18 November 2024
