The electronic case management system for social workers was introduced following Lord Laming's original report into the death of Victoria Climbie.
But the Social Work Taskforce, set up at the beginning of the year to undertake a comprehensive review of frontline social work practice, said in its report that: "the great majority of frontline social workers feel that ICS does not support them well. They feel frustrated and sometimes angry about a framework and computer system that they see as bureaucratic and which can act as a barrier to good practice rather than supporting it".
Children's Secretary Ed Balls said: "The national requirement to have this formulaic way of doing things can be taken away very quickly and left to the professional judgement of social workers and their managers."
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