In January 2021, the government launched the ‘independent review of children’s social care in England’. The Review set out to ‘provide a once in a generation opportunity to transform the children’s social care system and provide children with loving, safe and stable families’. The Review published its final report in May 2022.
Family Rights Group believe that the Care Review has been an important opportunity to influence proposals for change across the child welfare system in England. We engaged with the Review, seeking to influence its recommendations, including through contributing evidence and sharing insight from our services and legal and policy experience. We held a series of policy seminars which fed into the Review. We also worked to ensure the Review hears the voices and experiences of mothers, fathers and kinship carers involved with the child welfare system.
In February 2023, the Government published their response to the Review’s recommendations in an implementation strategy document called Stable Homes, Built on Love. See our response to that here