
In a draft response to an ongoing government consultation
on the above-inflation increase to the Ofsted registration fee, the Independent Children's Homes Association (ICHA) urges the government to hold off on introducing the charge "for child-centred reasons".
The ICHA accused policymakers of a "disconnection from reality" in proposing the changes - the latest in a decade of annual increases.
It comes a year after the government overlooked the sector response to the consultation over 2018/19's registration fee, in which almost two thirds (62.5 per cent) of respondents were opposed.
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