Two years on from that, the care-experienced people who produced the Our Care: Our Say report submitted to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, were increasingly vocal champions for this policy, leading to it becoming a recommendation of review chair Josh MacAlister’s final report in 2022.
The then government declined to take forward this recommendation, citing, with some justification, that there were divergent views in the sector about the potential benefits.
Many see this as a rights-driven issue, drawing direct parallels with disabled people and other groups for whom protected characteristic status has proved positive.
There are those who are sceptical about whether a measure of this kind can really bring about necessary change or would just lead to organisations ticking boxes and jumping through hoops with nothing being different.
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