Committees

Children’s social care

Inquiry

In December 2023, the previous Education Committee began an important inquiry into the state of children's social care in England. Unfortunately, this work was interrupted by the General Election and the dissolution of Parliament on 30 May 2024, which meant all select committees were disbanded.

Recognising the critical nature of this subject, the new Education Committee has decided to reopen the inquiry.

Read the call for evidence for more detail about the inquiry.

We have not set a formal deadline for submissions for this inquiry. It would be most helpful for the committee’s consideration if written evidence could be submitted by the week commencing 9 December, however submissions after this date will still be considered. 

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was Friday 31 January 2025.

Reports, special reports and government responses

No reports or special reports published.

Correspondence

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Letter to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Children and Families) on Children's Social Care, dated 24.03.25
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letter from Maris Stratulis, National Director, BASW England on Children's Social Care, dated 02.01.25
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Correspondence to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Families and Wellbeing on the Committee's inquiry into Children's social care
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Oral evidence transcripts

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18 March 2025
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Witnesses The Department for Education, and Department for Education
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Oral Evidence
11 February 2025
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Witnesses Lamar Mohsen (Care-experienced young person), Georgia Sullivan (Care experienced young person), Louise Fitt (Care experienced young person), and Jake Hartley (Care experienced young person)
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11 February 2025
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Witnesses Dan Turnbull (Senior Director for Markets at Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)), Mrs Denise Rawls (Executive Director at The National Network for the Education of Care Leavers (NNECL)), Mr Sam Turner (Associate Director of Policy and Public Affairs at Kinship), and Roger Gough (Children’s Services Spokesperson at The County Councils Network (CCN))
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Written evidence

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The Centre for Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Safeguarding Studies (CLASS Centre) (CSC0189)
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Anonymised (CSC0195)
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Mr Matt Blow (Policy and Public Affairs Manager at Become) (CSC0191)
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Other publications

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Contact us

  • Email: educom@parliament.uk
  • Phone: 020 7219 2370 (general enquiries) | 020 7219 8895 (media enquiries)
  • Address: Education Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA