Department for Education and Skills officials have been conductingdetailed research for some months in the run-up to the green paper, tobe published on 9 October. Children's minister Beverley Hughes revealedthe key findings at last week's Labour conference. They are:
- A need for early and sustained intervention
- Improving placements and local authority commissioning
- A better deal from schools
- Better co-ordinated services outside of school
- Better transitions from care
- More robust frameworks of accountability
- Stronger support for the voice of the child.
The green paper is expected to address these issues. However, Hughesinsisted that the Government would not simply be giving more money tolocal authorities. She said the research had concluded that there is "nocorrelation whatsoever between the amount a local authority is spendingon children in care and how well those children are doing".
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