The next Comprehensive Spending Review is likely to be launched next month, laying out the government’s budget until 2025/26.
Despite previous concerns that reforms put forward by the government-commissioned review will not receive any extra funding, MacAlister has put forward three priorities for funding in an open letter to the Education Secretary and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay.
These are family help, homes for children in care and mental health support for children in care.
MacAlister explains that while he is unable to “provide findings or recommendations at this stage”, he states that “there is no situation in the current system where we will not need to spend more to make it sustainable”.
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