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  • What types of needs do children’s homes offer care for?

    A report about children's homes, the services that they offer and the needs that they say they are aiming to meet.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Children's social care statistics
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Children accommodated in secure children's homes: 31 March 2022

    Statistics on approved placements by type, gender, age, ethnicity and length of stay.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: secure children’s homes
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Independent review of children's social care: final report

    Independent report by Josh MacAlister looking at the needs, experiences and outcomes of the children supported by social care.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Post-16 educational and employment outcomes of children in need

    Explores the post-secondary school education and labour market outcomes of children in need, including those looked-after and on child protection plans.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Why do children go into children’s homes?

    A report on why children go into children’s homes and how well matched they are.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Ofsted social care research and 1 others
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Supporting families after care proceedings

    Research report on a qualitative study into parental perspectives of supervision orders and care orders at home.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities, in England: 2020 to 2021

    A range of outcome measures at national and local authority level for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: looked-after children and 1 others
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Northern Ireland Care Leavers 2020/21

    This annual publication presents information on those who left care during the previous financial year, as well as the circumstances of those who have left care at the time of their nineteenth birthday.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • ‘Ready or not’: care leavers’ views of preparing to leave care

    Findings from a survey of children in care and care leavers on the planning and preparation that happens before leaving care.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Ofsted social care research
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Consultation on national standards for unregulated provision: analytical report

    Analysis of the responses to the Department for Education’s (DfE) consultation on introducing national standards for unregulated provision.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • National standards for unregulated provision: young people’s views

    Analysis of the findings from the focus groups with care experienced children and young people on national standards for unregulated provision.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Childrens Social Care Statistics for Northern Ireland 2020/21

    Children’s social care statistics for Northern Ireland presents figures, collected from each of the five health and social care trusts, for children in need at 31 March and year ending 31 March.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • How groups of children's homes work

    A report on social care groups and how they influence policy and practice across children’s homes.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Ofsted social care research
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Children Adopted from Care in Northern Ireland 2020/21

    This annual publication details statistical information on children adopted from care in Northern Ireland.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Children in Care in Northern Ireland 2019/20

    This publication presents information on children in Northern Ireland who have been looked after continuously for 12 months or longer at 30 September each year.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Children’s homes providing short breaks

    An analysis of children’s homes that provide short breaks, usually for disabled children.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Ofsted social care research and 1 others
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Children’s homes workforce literature review and call for evidence

    Research reports commissioned in response to an IICSA recommendation to introduce professional registration requirements for carers in children’s homes.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Children’s social care questionnaires 2021: what children and young people told Ofsted

    What children and young people have told us about their experiences of living in children’s homes or with foster carers and staying at residential special schools or boarding schools.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Social care questionnaires: what children and young people told Ofsted
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Children accommodated in secure children's homes: 31 March 2021

    Statistics on approved placements by type, gender, age, ethnicity and length of stay.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: secure children’s homes
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Placing children for ‘welfare’ and ‘justice’ reasons together in secure children’s homes

    Research report considering whether the practice of placing children together in secure children’s homes for justice and welfare reasons increases the risk of child sexual abuse.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated: