The Residential Care Leadership Board (RCLB), which was set up in 2017 to lead on the delivery of the changes to residential children's care in England that were recommended in Sir Martin Narey's 2016 review of the sector, has been scrapped to make way for a controversial working group to draft national standards for unregulated supported accommodation
Announcing its creation, the Department for Education said its aims included encouraging local authorities to reduce the cost of children's home placements by working together on commissioning, and ensuring that best practice in residential childcare is shared and put into practice.
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