A national public consultation on the draft National Standards for Children’s Residential Centres was carried out during a six-week period from September until November 2017.
In this time, all interested parties were invited to submit their views on the draft standards. Submissions were received from people with experience of care, practitioners and policy makers.
The feedback received has been reviewed and the draft standards have been revised accordingly. A summary of the feedback and the main amendments will be published in a statement of outcomes document along with the final standards following Ministerial approval.
The standards describe what a child-centred, safe and effective children’s residential centre should look like. They will be a framework for improvement for staff and a guide for children and their families as to what they should expect from a centre. The standards will apply to all children’s residential centres.