Committees

Children's Homes

Inquiry

The inquiry will focus on children’s homes.

It will examine a number of areas including educational outcomes and destinations, the quality of support provided by children’s homes, unregulated provision, rates of criminalisation, the sufficiency of children’s home places, and the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Read the call for evidence for more detail about the inquiry

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Upcoming events

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Past events

Tuesday 1 March 2022
10:00am Public
Children's Homes - Oral evidence 1 March 2022
10:00am
  • Will Quince (Minister for Children and Families at Department for Education)
  • Fran Oram (Director of Children’s Social Care at Department for Education)
Room 15, Palace of Westminster
Tuesday 1 February 2022
10:00am Private
Oral evidence session 1 February 2022
Room 15, Palace of Westminster
Tuesday 11 January 2022
10:00am Public
Children's Homes - Oral evidence 11 January 2022
10:00am
  • Dame Rachel de Souza (Children's Commissioner for England at Office of the Children's Commissioner for England)
  • Juliette Cammaerts (Director of Policy and Planning at Office of the Children's Commissioner for England)
  • Yvette Stanley (National Director for Social Care at Ofsted)
Room 15, Palace of Westminster
Tuesday 16 November 2021
10:00am Public
Children's Homes - Oral evidence 16 November 2021
10:00am
  • Andrew Isaac (Independent Chair at Children’s Services Development Group)
  • Charlotte Ramsden OBE (President at Association of Directors of Children’s Services)
  • Jonathan Whalley (Chief Executive at St Christopher’s Fellowship)
  • Michelle Lee-Izu (Interim Co-CEO at Barnardo’s)
Room 15, Palace of Westminster

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