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.

Children's Home Hub

The Children's Home Hub provides guidance, practical tools, research and regulatory information for people opening and running children's homes in England.

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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.
Compliance Calendar — tools/Compliance Calendar on The Children's Home Hub. The Children's Home Hub offers 47 pages of resources, research, and expert insig.
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.
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.