A reduction in services is also leading to more children from all backgrounds being taken into care, she says.
A report from Longfield's Commission on Young Lives has found that teenagers from all backgrounds are at risk of harm due to a breakdown in help available to families caused by funding cuts over the last decade.
This is leading to a “conveyor belt of vulnerable children available to county lines, gangs and abusers”, she warned.
Longfield criticised the children’s social care system for being blighted by “a blizzard of bureaucracy and assessment forms”, involving multiple referrals and “tick box assessments” that are leaving families feeling that “services are being done to them rather than with them”.
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