Children's Homes

Inquiry by the Education Committee, 15 March 2021 to 16 February 2023. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• Second Report - Educational poverty: how children in residential care have been let down and what to do about it (8 July 2022)
• Third Special Report - Educational poverty: how children in residential care have been let down and what to do about it: Government response to the Committee’s Second Report (10 November 2022)

Evidence sessions

• 20 July 2021: Anne Longfield, Former Children’s Commissioner; Lord Adonis; Josh MacAlister, Independent Review of Children’s Social Care
• 19 October 2021: Victoria Langer, Become; Patrick Ward, National Association of Virtual School Headteachers (NAVSH); Patrick Ward, Lewisham Virtual School; Mark Russell, The Children’s Society; Hannah McCowen, National Care Leavers Benchmarking Forum, and Catch 22
• 16 November 2021: Andrew Isaac, Children’s Services Development Group; Charlotte Ramsden OBE, Association of Directors of Children’s Services; Jonathan Whalley, St Christopher’s Fellowship; Michelle Lee-Izu, Barnardo’s
• 11 January 2022: Office of the Children's Commissioner for England; Ofsted; Office of the Children's Commissioner for England
• 1 February 2022: witnesses not listed
• 1 March 2022: Will Quince, Department for Education; Fran Oram, Department for Education