Protecting Our Children sets out the Liberal Democrat's vision for child protection.
Annette Brooke, the Liberal Democrat's shadow children's minister, said in the report: "We are concerned that the threshold for taking children into care is not uniform due to an absence of national guiding principles.
"A recent report by the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee on looked-after children highlighted ‘huge variations on the rates of children in care throughout the country'."
Brooke is proposing that an expert body with representation from all relevant disciplines should be set up to look at the principles surrounding the thresholds for taking children into care.
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