Education expert Chris Waterman has claimed the idea is flawed and said that instead, "personal mentors" such as retired teachers or social workers should act as champions for children in care.
In his paper Motivation and Agency in Social Work Practices: of halos and horns, paupers and princes, Waterman says that in organising social care practices in the same way as GP practices "it is either naive or disingenuous to assume a model that operates in primary health care and school education can be replicated in this very different context."
But economist and academic Julian Le Grand, who came up with the idea of social work practices, has dismissed Waterman's suggestion and insisted his model will work.
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