Consultation outcome

Delegating children's social care functions

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 17 April 2014
• Last updated: 20 June 2014 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Powers to delegate children's social care functions: government response

Ref: DFE-00460-2014

PDF, 183 KB, 10 pages

Detail of outcome

Summary of consultation responses and details of the resulting amendments to the draft.

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Original consultation

Summary

We are seeking views on proposed regulations to give local authorities greater freedom in how they provide social services to children.

This consultation ran from
9am on 17 April 2014 to 5pm on 30 May 2014

Consultation description

We invite views on proposals to broaden the range of local authority children’s social care functions that can be delivered through a third party provider.

This proposal supports the children’s social care innovation programme.

The draft regulations for the powers to delegate children’s social care functions are available to download from the e-consultations website.

Documents

Powers to delegate children's social care functions

PDF, 261 KB, 5 pages

Published 17 April 2014

Last updated 20 June 2014 + show all updates

1. 20 June 2014

   Added government reponse document.

2. 17 April 2014

   First published.