Incoming children’s residential care regulations will soon require providers of supported accommodation to register with Ofsted in order to offer placements to 16- and 17-year-olds in local authority care. The requirement, which is due to come into effect from 26 October, was one of the measures announced following the Care Review, but it stopped short of an outright ban on such provision for under-18s which many campaigners have called for.
Under the new requirements, providers will be subject to Ofsted registration and inspection, and will need to meet a raft of new quality standards, though these are less stringent than those used for “standard” children’s homes.
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