Speaking at a Conservative Party fringe event in Manchester hosted by the NSPCC, Michael Gove said he feared social workers were scared of taking children away from their birth families.
While Gove said he did not fully support Barnardo's chief executive Martin Narey's calls to take more children into care from birth, he believed an "important question" had been raised.
"We need a renewed focus on the assumption that keeping a child with its birth parents is the overwhelming default option," he said.
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