Responding to the consultation on controversial plans to allow local authorities the power to outsource children's services including child protection, the ADCS said services designed to keep children and young people safe "should not be predicated on a profit motive".
The organisation’s response states that, should the proposals go ahead, there should be further consultation on new regulations and guidance for local authorities and potential providers to ensure a “secure and transparent basis for protecting children” is in place.
The organisation makes a total of ten points, all based on the assumption that further consultation of the underpinning regulations takes place.
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