The Department for Education is implementing comprehensive children's social care reform including establishment of a Child Protection Authority, regional care cooperatives, and improved support for looked-after children and kinship carers. Multiple bills address distance placements, care worker standards, and children not in school. Current status involves programme specification for Kinship Zones, post-qualifying standards development, and consultation on child protection authority establishment.
Guidance on delivering the kinship allowance pilot and other kinship support, such as family network support packages.
Information on the development and rollout of regional care cooperatives (RCCs).
Response to the national workload action group final report on reducing unnecessary social worker workload.
Response to the national workload action group final report on reducing unnecessary social worker workload.
A policy statement setting out the government's commitment to whole system reform of the children’s social care system.
The Department for Education's plans for the children's social care dashboard.
The Department for Education's long-term plan to transform data in children's social care.
Our plan to transform children's social care.
A programme that seeks to develop, test and share effective ways of supporting children who need help from children’s social care services.
How the government is reviewing support for children in need in order to support them and improve their outcomes.
How the government will reform children's social care in England.
Government response to the Education Committee's report on the mental health and wellbeing of looked-after children.
What the government is doing to protect vulnerable children and improve the quality of children's social care services.
Information about the move to regional adoption agencies.
How the government is ensuring social workers and other professionals are able to help and protect vulnerable children.