Speaking to the British Association of Social Workers annual conference Loughton told delegates that the report's 53 recommendations would not bring about more robust inspections or more transparency.
Loughton said the Laming report, commissioned to investigate child protection services in the wake of the Baby P case, created a "multitude of directions and guidelines for almost every administrative tier."
He said: "I don't think this is the sort of report that many of us actually wanted. We wanted one that offered less bureaucracy particularly for frontline social workers, one that improved recruitment and retention of social workers, a report that offered more robust inspections proceedures and we wanted a report that offered improved transparency into the failures of the system, which it doesn't offer.
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