Wales consultation on moving children's social care to a not-for-profit model
This consultation seeks views on two proposals:
- to restrict the further expansion of existing for-profit children’s services by preventing the addition of new beds in for-profit children’s homes and the approval of new foster carers by for-profit fostering service providers from April 2027; and
- enable continuity of foster carer approvals by allowing, in limited and clearly defined circumstances, foster carer approvals to be deemed to transfer where a for-profit fostering service re-establishes as a not-for-profit fostering service.
The consultation is open until 23 Sept 2026.