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Five ways social care can build on the foundations of the last parliament

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The last parliament provided a rich foundation for sustained action in children’s social care. We saw encouraging cross-party consensus on the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care and the National Panel reports.
Data and evidence can help deliver better services for children and families. Picture: RawPixel.com/Adobe Stock
Data and evidence can help deliver better services for children and families. Picture: RawPixel.com/Adobe Stock

Debates raged largely around funding and pace. Whatever the general election result, that will not get any easier to resolve. We’ll need a grown-up conversation about funding, regulation and the performance of services.

1.  Recognise that children and families need real join up across health, local government, social care, justice, education and more. Social workers can’t do it alone. Leaders need to energise a guiding coalition to scale and spread change. A coalition embracing central and local government, the voluntary and charity sector, the NHS, justice, schools and people with lived experience. Harness the collaboration we saw during Covid. Some of this is already coalescing around care leavers and families. Build on that.

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