The two pathfinders announced are to be local authority-led but are not yet active. There is no evidence that councils can work together to deliver children’s social care. In fact, regional adoption agencies have demonstrated just how dysfunctional such an approach can be.
I proposed a national care service to the Care Review and continue to believe that this is the best way forward. If we created 15 RCCs across England answering to the DfE as an arms-length body then this could be transformative. Sitting above the RCCs could be a flat management structure with five executive directors who would oversee and support three RCCs each, a chief executive, chief financial officer and a marketing and recruitment director.
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