Times like these, we can say, provide an opportunity to "do more with less", to yield genuine efficiencies and cut out the dead wood. By and large, that's a healthy outlook for children's services to adopt. But life isn't always that straightforward - or that fair.
And at the moment, youth services are looking particularly vulnerable to cuts. Youth work is in danger of being squeezed by others in the children's services spectrum whose value is (mistakenly) perceived to be more fundamental. Social work is a case in point. The Baby P case has led to major reforms and put the spotlight on its practice amid a big rise in child protection referrals.
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