The government’s Children’s Social Care Implementation Strategy has been published today (2 February) following MacAlister’s review and details a package of measures aimed at improving early support for families and the experience of looked-after children and care leavers.
This is backed by £200m investment over two years and includes prioritising care placements near to children’s family, friends, and schools as well £9m to improving support for kinship carers.
A further£45m is being invested in piloting a bespoke early help support scheme for families in 12 local areas “giving them access to local support with the focus on the help they need rather than bureaucratic boundaries and assessments between services and professionals”.
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