The 220-page Department for Education report, Stable Homes, Built on Love, has been published in response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, a safeguarding review into the murders of Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes in 2020 and the Competition and Markets Authority report on the children’s social care market.
The DfE’s £200m implementation plan, which takes forward some of the 80 recommendations made by Care Review chair Josh MacAlister, includes plans to create a new child protection lead practitioner role within council’s children’s services departments.
According to the report, the role “will value the specific practice skills, knowledge and experience that are needed when working directly with families where there is actual or likely significant harm. They will tackle issues such as domestic abuse, drug and alcohol use, exploitation, sexual abuse, and nonaccidental injury”.
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