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CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Downgrading councils who use illegal children's homes holds sector to 'unattainable standard'

Ofsted proposals to downgrade councils that use unregistered placements would hold local authorities (LAs) to an ‘unattainable standard’, children’s care chiefs have said.

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Ofsted proposals to downgrade councils that use unregistered placements would hold local authorities (LAs) to an ‘unattainable standard', children's care chiefs have said.

The regulator's consultation on two frameworks – the inspecting local authority children's services (ILACS) framework, including plans to make the use of illegal placements a ‘limiting criterion' in the framework, and the social care common inspection framework covering providers - closed this week.

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