Member

My amendments aim to speed up permanency for children and avoid the unnecessary contesting of a decision by a child’s birth parents through the courts. They aim to remove the unintended consequences of the current rules of creating unregistered placements for the purposes of Ofsted inspections, where a director of children’s services decides that a family member is the best person to care for the child but knows that they will not meet the foster panel’s standards. When most of us imagine an unregistered placement, we—or, certainly, I do—think of a holiday let or a caravan that is being used to house children with agency staff to care for them and not a member of the extended family.