The Children’s Homes Association (CHA), representing providers across England and Wales, today responds to the National Audit Office’s (NAO) report Managing children’s residential care and the statement from the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee.
"The absence of specialist input from the children’s residential care sector in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care is now evident. It is producing serious consequences for the future quality and sustainability of children’s social care."
As the membership body for children's homes in England and Wales, CHA welcomes the government’s policy announcements addressing the children’s social care crisis ands committed to working alongside the Department for Education to improve the sufficiency of children’s social care.
For some children and young people across the UK, home means something different. These are our society’s most vulnerable children, for whom a ‘normal family life’ isn’t possible for a wide range of reasons. They are small in numbers but in greater in need than any others in society.
