A letter sent to Williamson in January attracted 632 signatories from the sector including social workers, foster carers, care-experienced adults, directors of children’s services, academics and charity leaders.
The group urged the government to honour its pledge in the Conservative Party manifesto to carry out a review of the care system.
It urged the minister to be “ambitious” in the scope of the review addressing “significant concerns” highlighted in recent months regarding a raft of issues relating to the safety and wellbeing of looked-after children.
These include unregulated care homes and children being moved “chaotically” to different foster and children’s homes multiple times.
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