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Demanding better children's services across the UK.

Add your name to the call for an independent UK-wide public inquiry into children’s social care.

OUR ULTIMATE GOAL

A truly independent inquiry

We are gathering signatures to demonstrate public support for an independent inquiry whose terms of reference cover England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It should examine local authorities and the relevant public bodies responsible for children’s social care within each nation’s different system.

The inquiry should investigate whether the concerns set out on our Campaigns page reveal recurring or systemic failures. It must follow the evidence, hear different perspectives and publish its findings openly. Calling for an inquiry does not presume that every reported concern is proven or that wrongdoing occurred in every case.

What we want the inquiry to do

Hear the people affected

Take evidence from children and young people, parents, wider families, foster and kinship carers, care-experienced adults, advocates, whistleblowers, practitioners and independent experts.

Test systemic concerns

Examine record accuracy, evidence standards, safeguarding thresholds, early help, disability and poverty, complaints, information rights, placements, court evidence and institutional defensiveness.

Deliver accountable reform

Publish evidence-based findings, identify recurring patterns, recommend practical reforms and require responsible governments and public bodies to respond transparently.

What your support means: by adding your support below, you are backing our call for the UK Government, devolved governments and relevant legislatures and public bodies to establish or cooperate with an appropriately independent inquiry across all four UK nations.

Please note: this is the Step Up for Change supporter register, not an official UK Parliament petition. The total will be used to demonstrate public support for the campaign and its call for an inquiry.

Privacy by design: your email is used to prevent duplicate signatures and is never displayed publicly. Joining the public supporter list is optional and shows your full first and last name and city only when you select the public-list option. Private supporters are still included in the overall total.
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