In a letter to Conservative leadership candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, Peter Wanless from the NSPCC, Barnardo’s Lynn Perry, Mark Russell from The Children’s Society, Anna Feuchtwang from the National Children’s Bureau and Melanie Armstrong from Action for Children, have urged them to prioritise the implementation of the recommendations from the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, should they make it to Number 10.
The five chief executives say that “without leadership and action from the top of government, outcomes for vulnerable children and families will remain stubbornly poor across the country”.
The letter warns that in the next 10 years as many as 100,000 children could be in care compared with 80,000 currently in the system.
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