The government has launched its long-awaited Independent Review of Children’s Social Care in England. The “wholesale” review, promised in the Conservative Party’s 2019 general election manifesto, will be “bold, wide-ranging and will not shy away from exposing problems where they exist”, according to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.
Led by Josh MacAlister, the founder of the Frontline social work training scheme (see box), the review is set to “listen deeply” to the care-experienced population through an “experts by experience” group, planned to be at the heart of the project.
Here, professionals working with vulnerable children, sector leaders and charity chiefs set out the key areas they want the review to tackle.
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