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Children: Social Services

Question for Department for Education

UIN 30063, tabled on 4 July 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has a timescale for the reform of (a) fostering, (b) adoption, (c) kinship and (b) residential care for children.

Answered on

14 July 2022

The department is carefully assessing the recommendations made by the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, including those on reforming fostering, adoption, kinship, and residential care for children. We are currently establishing a National Implementation Board, which will respond with an implementation plan by the end of the year.