A report by the public accounts committee concludes that progress to tackle poorly performing services for children at risk of harm has been too slow.
Six years on from Professor Eileen Munro's child protection review, which recommended a raft of improvements, just 23 per cent of child protection services are considered to be "good" by Ofsted, the committee found.
"By no standards can this be seen as an improvement," their report adds.
Among its most damning comments is that they do not believe the Department for Education "has a credible plan to improve the system by 2020" and found that "it still has no evidence of what works".
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