Jeanette Pugh, director of the Department for Education’s safeguarding group, told delegates at the National Children and Adult Services Conference that there could be "unintended consequences" if there is a lack of co-ordination in the change process.
"We have to see all of [the reforms] as a whole system – one part has an impact on another," she said.
"We need to be aware and constantly alive to unintended consequences and perverse incentives. I believe it is going to be extremely challenging – some parts of the reforms are going to be easier than others."
"One of the important roles of the Department for Education is to help ensure that [unintended consequences] don’t happen, or at least the risk is mitigated."
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