Progress and outcomes of selected social care and child support policy changes and consultations

The topics currently under review and covered by this paper include (ordered by when first announced):

• review of international child abduction law
• the carers’ strategy;
• Sure Start Children’s Centres (including the suspension of Ofsted inspections);
• the Green Paper on adult social care; and
• family justice review (specifically grandparents’ contact with their grandchildren);

It also sets out details of recently completed consultations and policy changes in section 2, namely:

• surrogacy and parental orders for single people;
• updated child maintenance arrears and compliance strategy;
• the response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse’s (IICSA) report on child migrants.