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Parliament's record since 1997: debates, questions, statements, votes, bills, committees and members' interests

Where MPs Stand

Sourced briefings on the record of Parliament

Residential children's homes

Inquiry by the Education Committee, 16 July 2013 to 12 March 2014. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 6 November 2013: Dr Roger Morgan, Children's Rights Director, Office of the Children’s Rights Director, Richard Servian, member, British Association of Social Workers, and Tom Rahilly, Head of Strategy and Development for Looked After Children, NSPCC; Councillor Robert Light, Deputy Chair, Local Government Association, Jonathan Stanley, Chief Executive Officer, Independent Children’s Homes Association, Lisa Pascoe, Senior Her Majesty’s Inspector, Ofsted, and Claire Dorer, Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Independent Schools and Non-Maintained Special Schools (at 10.30 am).
  • 27 November 2013: Superintendent Laurence Taylor, Sussex Police, Chief Constable Patrick Geenty, Wiltshire Police, Association of Chief Police Officers lead on missing people, Jane Booth, Independent Chair, Rochdale Borough Safeguarding Children Board, and Iryna Pona, Policy Adviser, Children’s Society; Kamran Abassi, Service Development Director, Advanced Childcare, Andrew Webb, President, Association of Directors of Children's Services and Corporate Director, Services for People, Stockport Council, and Tim Parlow, Senior LAC/SEN Category Manager, North London Strategic Alliance (at 10.30 am).
  • 8 January 2014: Dr Maggie Atkinson, Children's Commissioner for England, Luke Rodgers, and Adam John Wood, Care leavers; Edward Timpson MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Education (at 10.30 am).