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8th August 2023
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Residential family centres
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Residential family centres must be registered with Ofsted. Ofsted defines residential family centres as any establishment that provides residential services for parents and their children in order to monitor and assess the parents’ ability to respond to their children’s needs and to safeguard and promote their children’s welfare. This definition excludes hospitals, independent clinics, hostels or domestic violence refuges, and accommodation where the fact that children are with the adults is incidental to meeting the adults’ needs.
Please supply this information for 2021/22, 2022/23 and the most up to date figures for 2023/24.
1. Who within the Local Authority has the commissioning responsibility for residential family centre placements. Please provide their:
a) Name
b) Job Title
c) Telephone number
d) Email address
2. Please could you provide the average weekly fee paid to an independent residential family centre for a 12 week residential programme.
3. Please provide the total number of family placements in made an independent residential family centre each year for a minimum of 12 weeks residential programme
4. Please provide a list of the independent residential family centre provider names with which families were placed during the year.
See attached file.
