Care Review chair Josh MacAlister recently visited a community centre in Bury to hear about the work taking place to improve children's services in the Greater Manchester borough, which was judged “inadequate” by Ofsted in December 2021.
Council leaders were keen for MacAlister to visit because many of the measures put forward in his 2022 review of the social care system chime with their own reform agenda, including delivering more services closer to where families live.
“I’d like to see all our children's social care workforce and the whole family help system based out of buildings like this across England rather than in council offices really far away from the public,” MacAlister said during the visit.
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