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Children's social care providers: fees and inspections 2022
We're seeking views on our proposals to make changes to the fees and frequency of inspections regulations from 1 April 2022.
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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:
- a 10% increase on current fees payable by children’s social care providers, for those providers which are not already at full cost recovery
- the introduction of new fees for providers who wish to include multiple buildings under one children’s home registration
- resetting the 3-year inspection cycle for residential family centres, voluntary adoption agencies, adoption support agencies and fostering agencies
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