In the run up to these important milestone dates, I have been enjoying reading the comments from past ADCS presidents about what those vital pieces of legislation mean to them and for children and families.
From the revolutionary concept in the 1989 Act that children had rights of their own, and that adult responsibility was to protect those rights and children’s welfare, to the holistic view of children’s lives at the heart of the 2004 Act, and the attendant requirement for services to work in partnership to improve children’s outcomes across many different domains, these acts have shaped the principles and guided the practice of everyone working with children ever since.
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