Guides for children's residential care and placement teams
Plain-English guides to children's home regulations, finding and filling placements and placement team roles.
- Children's home regulations explained - A plain-English guide to the Children Act 1989, the Care Standards Act 2000 and the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015.
- How to fill vacant beds in children's residential homes - How local authority placement teams actually search for homes, and what makes a provider get chosen.
- How to find children's placements, fast - Where experienced placement officers search, what they check first, and how to cut time-to-placement.
- Who's who in a local authority placement team - From Head of Children's Commissioning to Placements Contract Officer: every role, explained.
- How to register a children's home with Ofsted - The SC1 application, required documents, SC2 forms, the registration visit, and realistic timescales.
- Preventing placement breakdown: what the evidence shows - What a 2026 study of English administrative data found about unplanned placement changes, and what to check before a placement starts.
- Qualifications for children's residential care - The Level 3 Diploma for support workers, Level 5 and Regulation 28 for managers, DBS checks, and realistic grace periods.
- Bank staff pay rates in children's residential care - What the available data says about bank pay, and what actually moves your rate up.