The extended relaxations of legislation around safeguards and protections to vulnerable children will allow medical reports on prospective foster carers and adopters to be approved at a later date and permit visits between social workers and children to take place virtually when local lockdowns or self-isolation make in-person visits impossible.
The extension will also see Ofsted’s return to full inspections of children’s social care settings including children’s homes and private foster care agencies pushed back until March 2021.
The amendments were introduced in April as part of a raft of changes brought in via the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020, also known as Statutory Instrument 445, in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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