MacAlister, who chaired the year-long review published in 2022, took the Whitehaven and Workington seat with 53% of the votes.
His new constituency is one of five seats in Cumbria lost by the Conservatives in the Labour Party’s landslide election win.
In his final report to government in 2022, MacAlister made more than 80 recommendations, many of which were taken forward by ministers in the Conservative government’s report Stable Homes Built on Love.
Key recommendations made by MacAlister centred on plans to keep families together when possible in a bid to reduce the numbers of children entering care and implement a shift away from crisis intervention to early help across the children’s social care system.
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