The Department for Education and Skills has proposed a minimum of oneinspection a year for all children's homes, a reduction from the currentminimum of twice a year while services judged as poor could be inspectedat least three times a year.
But Jonathan Stanley, principal officer at the National Centre forExcellence in Residential Child Care, insisted that twice-yearlyinspections should continue to be the norm.
"Residential child care has always benefited from and ensured thesafeguarding of children through three complementary sets of evidence,"he said. These include internal monitoring by a manager and outsideevaluation by an external manager or consultant. "Both of these aremonitored by the regulator. To keep these related to the life of thesetting requires twice-yearly inspection," he said.
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