Consultation outcome

Children’s social care providers: inspection frequency and fees

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 12 October 2017
• Last updated: 27 February 2018 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Fees and frequency of inspection regulations

Ref: DFE-00063-2018

PDF, 218 KB, 14 pages

Detail of outcome

Summary of responses we received, along with the government’s response outlining the next steps.

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Original consultation

Summary

We are seeking views on proposed changes to the fees and frequency of inspections regulations.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
2pm on 12 October 2017 to 11:59pm on 7 December 2017

Consultation description

We are seeking views on the following proposed changes to Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Fees and Frequency of Inspections) (Children’s Homes etc) Regulations 2015, with a view to regulations coming into force in April 2018:

• a 10% increase on current fees for most settings where fees are not already at full cost recovery
• reviewing the structure of future fees
• ending inspections for closed children’s homes

The consultation will run for 8 weeks.

Published 12 October 2017
Last updated 27 February 2018 + show all updates

1. 27 February 2018

   Published consultation outcome.

2. 12 October 2017

   First published.