Funding of local authorities’ children’s services inquiry

Inquiry by the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, 10 September 2018 to 21 October 2019. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 14th Report - Funding of local authorities' children's services (1 May 2019)
• Government response to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee Report on funding of local authorities’ children’s services (3 July 2019)

Evidence sessions

• 11 February 2019: Professor Lauren Devine, Director, Social Justice Research Group, University of the West of England, Phil Harding, Independent Expert, Professor Ray Jones, Emeritus Professor of Social Work, Kingston University and St George's, University of London, and Dr Miriam Silver, Consultant Clinical Psychologist ; Kathy Evans, Chief Executive Officer, Children England, Adam Pemberton, Corporate Director for Strategy and Performance, Barnardo's, and Cathy Ashley, Chief Executive, Family Rights Group (at 5.00pm).
• 25 February 2019: Yvette Stanley, National Director for Children’s Social Care, OFSTED, Anne Longfield, Children's Commissioner for England, and Sharon Chappell, Assistant Ombudsman, Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman; Ruth Allen, Chief Executive Officer, British Association of Social Workers, Stuart Gallimore, President of ADCS and Director of Children's Services in East Sussex, Association of Directors of Children's Services, Allan Madeley, Commissioning Co-ordinator, Liverpool City Region Local Authorities, and Councillor Roy Perry, Deputy Chair, Children and Young People Board, Local Government Association (at 5.00pm).
• 11 March 2019: Jonathan Stanley, Chief Executive Officer, Independent Children’s Homes Association, Andrew Isaac, Chair, Children's Services Development GroupRishi Sunak MP, Minister for Local Government, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Nadhim Zahawi MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families, Department for Education