Les Lawrence, chair of the LGA children and young people board, today told delegates at the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) conference: "You need to do this to enable you to take the consequences of whatever the result is."
Lawrence also warned that children's services leaders would have to start defending their budgets to other local authority leaders as councils enter a period of tough negotiations on where to spend already stretched budgets.
"We need to challenge the concept of protection around budgets. We need to be able to justify what we are doing on the basis of sound strategic outcomes," he said.
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