In a new report, the committee finds that a lack of investment in protecting children at risk of serious harm alongside cuts to early years and youth services has been felt disproportionately in the most deprived areas, resulting in worse life chances for children and more pressure on social services.
Too many children in deprived areas are taken into care, excluded from school, suffer from poor health, struggle to access the job market or end up in prison because of the lack of services able to intervene early with at-risk young people, the report states.
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