Martin Ford 15 March 2023

Call for 'full reset' of children's care

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The Government’s approach to children’s social care will not solve the issues within the system, experts have said.

Josh MacAlister, who chaired the independent review of children’s social care, told an inquiry by the House of Lords' Public Services Committee a bolder strategy was needed.

Mr MacAlister highlighted that councils were still pulling more and more investment out of early intervention and into expensive crisis resolution, necessitating ‘a level of reform and investment to break that spiral’.

Former children’s commissioner for England and Wales, Anne Longfield, agreed that the system was ‘intervening only at crisis point in too many instances’.

She added: ‘When you get to that stage it costs a lot more.’

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