In January 2024, Advicenow (formerly Law for Life) supported Roma Support Group’s submission to the Education Committee’s Call for Evidence looking into the children’s social care sector in England and the Government’s Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy. 

The Education Committee’s inquiry looks into reasons for the sharp rises in child protection investigations and numbers of children in care since 2010, the effect this is having on local authorities and young people, and how the trends could be reversed.

Our joint submission reflects Roma Support Group’s organisational experience and insights from their work and also draws on some of the findings from a collaborative mixed methods study, conducted by Law for Life, Anglia Ruskin University, and Lancaster University (Centre for Child and Family Justice Research), which examined the experiences of Roma families with child protection services in England.