The past 12 months have seen significant developments in children’s residential care with the publication of the government’s Stable Homes, Built on Love policy paper which sets out plans for a new system of commissioning placements, and the introduction of regulations for semi-independent settings for 16- and 17-year-olds which it is hoped will raise standards of care for vulnerable young people. What has remained constant throughout this period has been rising demand for places, a sector struggling to add more capacity in areas where there is a shortage and children’s needs becoming increasingly complex.
Published in February, the 220-page Stable Homes strategy – the government’s response to the previous year’s Independent Review of Children’s Social Care – puts forward a package of measures to “fix” problems with the care system backed with £200m of new funding. One of its six missions is to deliver “high-quality, stable and loving homes for every child in care, local to where they are” by 2027.
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