In an open letter to Nadhim Zahawi, leaders of 25 charities including Become, Children England, Adoption UK, Barnardo’s and Catch 22, urge the Education Secretary to “commit to a timetable for reform that is transparent, ambitious and underscores the urgency needed to improve children’s social care”.
The Department for Education must secure “significant resource” from the Treasury to back “prime reforms” that will improve the children’s social care system, the letter states.
It also calls on ministers to ensure the voices of care-experienced people “remain at the centre of these reforms”.
“Those with care experience should have ways to hold the government to account for these reforms and their voices should be heard by those making decisions about how reform should be implemented,” the letter states.
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