What is The Children's Home Hub?

The Children's Home Hub offers 47 pages of resources, research, and expert insight for professionals across England's children's residential care sector.

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Open A Home — Step-by-step guidance for opening a children's home in England, from feasibility and property through to Ofsted registration, staffing and opening.
Run A Home — Guidance and practical tools for managing a children's home, covering leadership, staffing, safeguarding, Ofsted, quality standards and compliance.
Ofsted — Guidance on Ofsted registration, inspection, SCCIF, Regulation 44, Regulation 45, notifications and leadership in children's homes in England.
Workforce — Guidance on recruitment, safer recruitment, staffing, qualifications, supervision, training, leadership, wellbeing and retention in children's homes.
Safeguarding — Safeguarding on The Children's Home Hub. The Children's Home Hub offers 47 pages of resources, research, and expert insig.
Regulations — Browse all 55 Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015 with CHH guidance, explainers, official sources and links to related tools.
Quality Standards — Guidance on the nine Quality Standards in Regulations 6 to 14 of the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015, with related resources and tools.
Resources — Independent guidance for opening and running children's homes in England, covering Ofsted, regulations, safeguarding, staffing, leadership and care.
Research — Independent CHH research into children's residential care, including workforce research, project methodology, findings and opportunities to take part.
Tools — Free practical tools for opening and running children's homes, including Ofsted readiness, Regulation 44, Regulation 45, training and compliance tracking.
Ofsted Readiness Checker — Free self-evaluation tool for children's homes covering key areas of the Regulations and Ofsted framework, with actions and related guidance.
Regulation44 Tracker — Track monthly Regulation 44 independent visits, reports, actions and follow-up for children's homes in England.
Regulation45 Tracker — Organise Regulation 45 quality of care reviews, evidence, actions and follow-up for children's homes in England.
Opening Tracker — Track the steps involved in opening a children's home, from early planning and property through staffing, Ofsted registration and opening.
Training Matrix — Track staff qualifications, training, renewals and development across your children's home using the free CHH Staff Training Matrix.
Supervision Tracker — Track staff supervision dates, upcoming sessions and follow-up actions for your children's home, with progress stored locally in your browser.
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Specialist Support — Find information about specialist support for children's homes and access the CHH Consultant Register and its transparent checking standards.
About — Learn why Children's Home Hub was created, how our guidance is sourced and the principles behind our resources, tools and independent research.
Article — Practical, evidence-led guidance for children's homes in England, with clear links to regulations, statutory guidance and official sources.
How We Assure Our Tools — How Children's Home Hub maps its tools to regulations, statutory guidance and Ofsted frameworks, including regulatory review and practitioner feedback.
Consultant Register — Search the CHH Consultant Register for specialists working with children's homes, with transparent information on experience, services and checks completed.
How We Check — How Children's Home Hub checks consultant identity, insurance, experience, evidence and references before listing consultants on the CHH Register.
Consultant Standard — The standards expected of consultants listed on the CHH Register, covering conduct, transparency, evidence, insurance and ongoing requirements.
Entry Standard — Read the entry requirements for the CHH Consultant Register, including experience routes, evidence, references, insurance and professional declarations.
Review Policy — How reviews on the CHH Consultant Register are submitted, checked, moderated, published and handled fairly for clients and consultants.
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Privacy — How Children's Home Hub collects, uses and protects personal information, including forms, research, consultant applications and browser-based tools.
Cookies — How Children's Home Hub uses browser storage, local data and essential cookies, including how My Hub tool data is stored on your device.
Terms — Terms governing use of Children's Home Hub, including our guidance, tools, research, consultant register and website services.
Accessibility Page — Read the Children's Home Hub accessibility statement and how we aim to make our guidance, tools and resources usable by as many people as possible.