Keeping Families Safe, Helping Children Thrive, the government’s new policy paper for reforming children’s social care, brings together a wide range of measures to improve support for vulnerable children and families covering data sharing, multi-agency working, support for struggling families, residential provision and inspection powers.
The paper starts from the premise that the social care system is delivering poor outcomes for too many vulnerable children despite the annual spend rising by £4.4bn over the past decade to now top £12bn annually. In her foreword, Education Secretary Budget Phillipson says the paper “marks the first steps in this government’s journey towards a social care system that delivers the best start in life for the children who most need it”. Many of the paper’s proposals build on measures already put in train by the previous government or adopt recommendations from the 2022 Care Review chaired by Labour MP Josh MacAlister.
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