West Midlands
Birmingham, where the company is based
Five Ways Advisory Ltd is based in Birmingham and works with providers across England. A meeting is arranged at the service.
Birmingham City Council decides planning applications inside the city boundary. Ofsted still registers the children’s home, and those are different questions. A planning note from a neighbouring council is not a Birmingham decision.
Fiveways is based in Birmingham. This page is about the work in Birmingham, not a local branch.
Planning applications in this area are decided by Birmingham City Council.
- Ofsted counted 630 children’s homes in the West Midlands at 31 March 2025, with 2,140 places, 76 more homes than the year before. That is the regional figure, not a count of homes in Birmingham.
- Compliance troubleshooting is the usual starting point for a home already open in the city: the same requirement returning, or a leadership judgement that does not match the care.
- Property and planning questions are looked at against the building and the local authority. We still do not choose the house for you, and we do not decide the application.
The work that usually belongs here
Questions that come up here
Where do meetings take place?
At the service. A street address for the company is not published on this site yet.
Does a Birmingham address make Ofsted registration easier?
No. Ofsted registers children’s homes in England against the same framework. The local question is usually planning, and Birmingham City Council decides that.
Nearby, and not the same
- Coventry — A different local plan from the city next door.
- Wolverhampton — The Black Country is not one planning authority.
- West Midlands