Education Secretary Gavin Williamson launched the consultation last month with proposals including banning the use of unregulated provision for under-16s and introducing national minimum standards for supported accommodation for 16- to 18-year-olds.
However, the Department for Education (DfE) has brought together organisations believed to include Ofsted, the Local Government Association, Independent Children’s Home Association and the National Youth Advocacy Service to draw up draft quality standards for such provisions.
It is set to provide DfE with "expert advice" alongside the consultation and will be chaired by former president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services Sir Alan Wood.
The group’s mandate is “to create a working draft of quality standards that will be reworked to include consultation responses”, sources told CYP Now.
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