Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 25587

Children: Care Homes

Tabled: 21 January 2025
Answered: 30 January 2025

Question

Mr Peter Bedford

ConservativeMid Leicestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what safeguards are in place to ensure people who (a) own, (b) manage and (c) work in private children's homes are properly qualified.

Answer

Janet Daby
Providers of children’s homes must register with Ofsted and prove that they are financially, mentally, and physically fit to carry on a children’s home, and that they are of integrity and good character. These requirements are set out in Regulation 26 of ...

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