ADCS president Stuart Gallimore told CYP Now he has been left frustrated by a lack of action by government to address the mounting financial crisis facing children's social care.
He says that local authorities have already scaled back spending on children's services, but with most councils needing to find further savings the only area left to cut is early help and prevention.
Such cuts will heighten the risk of children being taken into care and result in increased social care, health and youth justice spending in the long term, warns Gallimore.
"All of the easy things - the efficiencies, the restructures, the de-layering - have been done," said Gallimore.
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