The Education Committee will question experts from across the children’s social care sector about the state of services.
Meeting details
This will be the first oral evidence session the Committee has held on the subject since reopening its children’s social care inquiry, which was brought to an early close by the general election.
This session will see representatives of organisations from across the sector answer questions about workforce issues, early intervention and outcomes of young adults after leaving the care system.
MPs will also examine strengths and weaknesses in the different types of care, such as foster, adoption, kinship (where children are placed with other family members or friends) and placing children in residential homes, as well as reunification strategies.
Following the conviction of Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother, and the publication of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s annual report, the Committee will consider the work of child protection services in local authorities during the course of its inquiry.