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Children's services face 'double whammy'

Increased pressure on children's services as a result of the recession and the Baby Peter case is proving to be a long-term trend rather than a blip, it has been claimed.

Debbie Jones, chair of the resources and sustainability policy committee at the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS), said the two phenomena had combined to prove a ‘double whammy' for service providers.

She told a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children that the ADCS was teaming up with C4EO, the National Children's Bureau and the Local Government Association (LGA) to collate national data on the situation.

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