Speaking at the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) annual conference, Vicky Ford urged local authority leaders to “consider if there is more that you can do to facilitate help for these young people”.
“I really would encourage you to try and get behind this system. Please keep going because otherwise we’ll have to go for the mandation and I think that will further increase pressure on local authorities,” she said, citing the results of a Home Office consultation on the scheme in which “a third of people were strongly against mandation, a third were really for it and the other third weren’t sure”.
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