In a Twitter thread answering “common” question posed to the director of Frontline social care, who was named as chair of the review last month, MacAlister wrote: “The full-time team will mainly be civil servants (as is typical for reviews like this) and we’ll share more about who is on the team once it’s fully staffed in March.”
The Department for Education later clarified that MacAlister is referring to the "secretariat team that supports the review" rather than the review panel.
The chair also played down claims the outcome of the review would be similar to a blueprint for children’s social care co-authored by MacAlister in 2019.
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