Progress and innovation in services for children and young people comes from a range of sources and shifts over time. It can come from the police, faith groups and the private sector, as well as government. In the late 1970s, many children's charities remained positively Victorian in outlook and operation — and then they took a great leap forward to face more contemporary challenges as well as those that still persisted. Rantzen discusses the merger of a relatively new charity (ChildLine) with a long-established one (NSPCC).
There are cycles of innovative ideas, energy, delivery, consolidation, entrenchment and stagnation. Different bodies take the lead and perhaps they need to know when their time is up.
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