The strategy will contain a range of new measures aimed at delivering better outcomes for children in care, including giving social workers powers to “take action” against children’s placements providers that deliver “subpar standards of care at sky-high costs to councils”, the Department for Education says.
There will be new rules requiring private children’s home and foster care providers to share their finances with the government, which the DfE says will “allow profiteering to be challenged” and improve financial transparency of the children’s care sector.
A “backstop” law will be drafted that will put a limit on the profit that providers can make that the government will introduce if, the DfE says, providers do not voluntarily “put an end to profiteering”.
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