The Department for Education recently announced proposed reforms to the children's residential care homes rules. The proposals are open for consultation until 17 September. The consultation document states that the proposed changes are necessary to improve "collaboration and partnership" between children's homes and local services to ensure that safeguards are in place for the "vulnerable group of children relying on residential care".
The proposals are part of a package of reforms aimed at improving protection to children placed in residential children's homes. Other reform initiatives include revised statutory guidance on children who go missing from care and new inspection and intervention powers for Ofsted. These proposals involve replacing the "adequate" inspection grading with "requires improvement", and the introduction of a system that would give an "amber" rating to inadequate homes, and a "red" rating if they fail to improve within a set time frame, resulting in their closure.
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