Children’s social care questionnaires 2017: What children told us about their experiences of living in children’s homes or living with foster carers

We use online questionnaires to gather views about children’s homes,  secure children’ shomes, adoption services, fostering services and residential family centres, boardingschools, residential special schools and further education colleges.

The questionnaires are for children, learners, parents , staff, social workers and otherprofessionals, such as independent reviewing officers.

These questionnaires ran from 19 June to 13 August 2017, and 31  August to 12October. We received responses from 37,086 individuals in total.

We use the  responses, along with other information we have, such as previousinspect ion findings or any concerns, to decide when to inspect and what to focus onwhen we do.