Care Review chair Josh MacAlister says in his 274-page report that “a radical reset” of services for the most vulnerable children and families “is now unavoidable”, highlighting data from the County Council’s Network which found that without reform more than 100,000 children could be in care by 2025.
“What we have currently is a system increasingly skewed to crisis intervention, with outcomes for children that continue to be unacceptably poor and costs that continue to rise,” MacAlister says.
Family help
High on his list of key proposals is the creation of a new family help service set to replace “targeted early help” and “child in need” work.
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