Consultations
As the national charity all about children and families, 4Children is regularly invited to take part in consultations and inquiries. Organisations we respond to include government departments and agencies, and Parliamentary inquiries. These all offer a useful opportunity to contribute to policy making.
Live consultations (and deadline)
We would like as many people as possible to get involved in current consultations by submitting your views to us, or by responding directly yourself from the links provided below
Submitted consultation responses
Below are details of 4Children’s responses to policy consultations and, where available, links to associated information.
2016
- Department for Education: Wraparound and holiday childcare - February 2016. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Education Select Committee and Work and Pensions Select Committee: Foundation years and the UK Government's life chances strategy inquiry - February 2016. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
2015
- Education Select Committee: Sure Start Children's Centres Follow Up - March 2015. Representation submitted (external PDF) and Consultation details.
- Department for Education: Funding for children and young people with SEND - February 2015. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Department for Education: Developing the teaching profession to a world-class standard - February 2015. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Home Office: The Prevent Duty - January 2015. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Home Office: Introducing Mandatory Reporting for Female Genital Mutilation - January 2015. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
2014
- HM Revenue and Customs: Tax Free Childcare Draft Guidance for Comment - December 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Ofsted: Better Inspection for All - December 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Childcare Payments Bill Committee - House of Commons: Childcare Payments Bill - October 2014. Representation submitted, Consultation details and Oral Evidence Session with 4Children CEO Anne Longfield (14.10.14) on Parliament TV (from 14.31).
- HM Revenue and Customs: Technical consultation on draft secondary legislation for the Childcare Payments Bill - October 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Ofsted: Integrated inspections of services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers and joint inspection of the Local Safeguarding Children Board - September 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Department for Education: Early years pupil premium and funding for 2-year olds - August 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Department for Education / Department of Work and Pensions: Setting the 2020 persistent child poverty target - August 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Affordable Childcare Committee - House of Lords - August 2014: Representation submitted (external PDF) and Consultation details.
- All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility: Possible future work on Parenting - July 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Children's Commission on Poverty: Inquiry into the Costs of School Life - July 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- All Party Parliamentary Inquiry: Hunger and Food Poverty in Britain - June 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- HM Treasury: Tax Free Childcare - consultation on childcare account provision - June 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Joint Parliamentary Inquiry: Childcare for disabled children - June 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Education Select Committee: Inquiry on Foundation Years Sure Start Children's Centres, Government Response - May 2014. Representation submitted (external PDF) and Consultation details.
- Department for Education: Powers to delegate children's social care functions - May 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Department for Education / Department for Work and Pensions Child Poverty Unit: Child Poverty Draft Strategy 2014-17- May 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Department for Education: Childminder agencies and changes to the local authority role - May 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Department for Education: Revision of the 'SEND code of practice: 0 to 25 years' - May 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Home Office Select Committee: Inquiry on gangs and youth crime - May 2014. Representation submitted (external PDF) and Consultation details.
- Ofsted: Separate graded judgements on the early years in school and the sixth form - May 2014. Consultation details.
- Ofsted: Inspecting childminder agencies - March 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Health Select Committee: Inquiry on Children’s and adolescent mental health and CAMHS - March 2014. Representation submitted (external PDF) and Consultation details.
- Education Select Committee: Inquiry on child well-being in England - March 2014. Representation submitted (external PDF) and Consultation details.
- HM Treasury: Budget 2014 Have Your Say - February 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
- Business Innnovation and Skills Select Committee: Inquiry into adult literacy and numeracy. Representation submitted and Consultation details.
- Department for Communities and Local Government: Local Government Finance Settlement 2014-15 - January 2014. Representation submitted (PDF) and Consultation details.
2013
- Health Select Committee: Public Expenditure on Health and Social Care - November 2013. Evidence submitted (PDF) and consultation details
- HM Treasury: Tax free childcare design and operation - October 2013. Evidence submitted (PDF) and consultation details
- Department for Education: Primary assessment and accountabilty under the new national curriculum - October 2013. Evidence submitted (PDF) and consultation details
- Department for Education: The regulation of childcare - October 2013. Evidence submitted (PDF) and consultation details
- Joint Committee on the Draft Deregulation Bill, Houses of Parliament: Draft Deregulation Bill - September 2013. Evidence submitted (PDF) and consultation details
- Social Security Advisory Committee: The income support (work-related activity) and miscellaneous amendments regulations 2013 - September 2013. Evidence submitted (PDF) and consultation details
- Education Select Committee: Inquiry on Foundation Years Sure Start Children’s Centres. Read the Oral Evidence from Anne Longfield, Chief Executive, 4Children – 26 June 2013, or watch the session on Parliament TV. [See also the written evidence submitted to the inquiry, published on the committee website in December 2012]
- Department of Work and Pensions: Measuring child poverty: A consultation on better measures of child poverty Response (PDF) – February 2013
- Liberal Democrats: Family Friendly Public Services section of the “A Balanced Working Life”, Consultation Paper 108 Response (PDF) – January 2013
- Ofsted: Inspection of Sure Start Centres Response (PDF) – January 2013
2012
- Department for Education: Adoption and Fostering: Tackling Delay – November 2012
- Education Committee: Inquiry on Sure Start Children's Centres - October 2012
- Child Maintenance - October 2012
- School Funding Reform - September 2012
- Childcare Commission - August 2012
- Labour Party: Domestic Violence consultation - August 2012
- Department of Food and Rural Affairs: Responsible dog ownership - June 2012
- Lambeth Housing - June 2012
- Ofsted: Statistics - June 2012
- Youth - May 2012
- Equal Marriage - April 2012
- Inquiry into the role and independence of the Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England - April 2012
- Oftsed: Regulation of Providers - March 2012
2011
- Abolition and transfer of functions of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission - December 2011
- London Childcare - October 2011
- Care to Learn - October 2011
- School funding reform - October 2011
- Revised Early Years Foundation Stage - September 2011
- Positive for youth - September 2011
- Passported Benefits - July 2011
- Strengthening Families - April 2011
- Department for Health: Healthy lives, healthy people - March 2011
2010
- Education Select Committee: Services for young people inquiry - December 2010
- Social Security Advisory Committee: Changes to the Sure Start Maternity Grant announced in the Emergency Budget 2010 - December 2010
- Savings Account and Health in Pregnancy Grant Public Bill Committee – November 2010
- Localism Inquiry - October 2010
- Independent Review of the Office of the Children’s Commissioner - Call for Evidence - October 2010
- Poverty and Life Chances Review - September 2010
- 21st Century Welfare reform - September 2010
- Family Justice Review - September 2010
- Updated guidance to support local authority Childcare Sufficiency Assessments and action planning - March 2010