However, others have branded the review’s initial report as “weak” adding it “stops short” of setting out a plan for reform.
Review chair Josh MacAlister has today put forward his priorities for improving England’s “shaky” children’s social care system which he described as “financially strained and risk-averse”.
The review’s initial report, published today (17 June) following the project’s launch in January, calls for the prioritising of family support over care proceedings and child protection investigations, greater use of adoption and kinship care and improved joined-up working to protect vulnerable teenagers from becoming involved in violent crime.
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