The social and economic forces that created those conditions were complex, but government responses to nationalism and a rapacious banking system lay at their heart.
Scroll forward 80 years - families are being forced into poverty and homelessness, early help is falling away, the education system is starved of funds… all of which is linked to government policy decisions that have poured billions into failing top-down change programmes in the NHS, built schools where none were needed, shored up the international banking system and responded to nationalism by signing a blank cheque to deliver Brexit.
Apparently, there is neither the government time nor money to address the fundamental needs that children's services professionals encounter on a daily basis. So what can be done about it in the here and now? There will be no more money and, even if our political leaders could tear themselves away from their tribal obsessions, there is no evidence they would do the right thing to rectify the problems we face. The answer is for practitioners to take more control.
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