Arrangements for selecting people with care-experience to sit on the Department for Education body set up to support implementation of reforms in the Care Review have been criticised as flawed prompting many charities to rebuff offers to make nominations to it.
In July, the DfE asked “larger” charities to nominate people with “lived experience” of the care system to sit on the National Implementation Board that will advise ministers on the delivery of recommendations made in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, published in May.
The board currently includes representatives from, among others, Ofsted and the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (see box), who, according to former children’s minister Will Quince, were chosen based on “experience of bringing about transformational change”. Its terms of reference are yet to be published.
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