CYP Now - Sector leaders criticise lack of progress two years on from Care Review publication

Children’s charities and sector leaders have raised concerns about the “painfully slow progress” of implementing reforms to the children’s social care system two years after recommendations were made in Josh MacAlister's Independent Review of Children's Social Care.

MacAlister: 'Not enough has changed' over the last two years. Picture: Frontline

The Our Care coalition, which includes NSPCC and Barnardo’s, is concerned over a lack of action to enact reforms promised by the government following the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care’s final report.

The government last year pledged £200m in improvements, including trialing targeted early help schemes and improving support for carers.

But the coalition said that “two years on from the publication of the Care Review there has been little progress in the reform of our children’s social care system, which sadly continues to fail too many children”.

They are particularly concerned that money promised by ministers is less than a tenth of the £2.6bn needed for effective reform called for by the review.

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