West Midlands
Wolverhampton, on its own plan
Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton are often spoken of together. A children’s home still has one address, and that address has one local planning authority. In the city, that is the City of Wolverhampton Council.
Ofsted does not register “a Black Country home”. It registers the setting you describe. We start from that description, then from the records if the home is already open.
Fiveways is based in Birmingham. This page is about the work in Wolverhampton, not a local branch.
Planning applications in this area are decided by City of Wolverhampton Council.
- Use the West Midlands total, 630 homes at 31 March 2025, only as regional context. It is not a Wolverhampton pipeline and it is not our caseload.
- Troubleshooting here is usually about a requirement that has been repeated, or about leadership evidence that does not match the shift.
- Property searches should test the Wolverhampton plan before money is committed to a building that Birmingham would have treated differently.
The work that usually belongs here
Questions that come up here
Do you cover Dudley and Walsall as well?
We can work there. Each council decides its own planning applications. This page is about Wolverhampton because that is a different authority from its neighbours.
How do visits work?
From Birmingham. We agree the day when we know the deadline. We do not keep a room in Wolverhampton.
Nearby, and not the same
- Birmingham — Visits are arranged at the service.
- Stoke-on-Trent — Staffordshire’s city, still in the West Midlands region.
- West Midlands