Talking over the water cooler – or in the staff room, or on social media – many people are saying that child protection services are getting worse. It is hardly surprising. Council funding has reduced by 40 per cent in the past five years and is dropping another 30 per cent in the years ahead.
Police budgets follow the same trend and local health commissioning budgets are now going the same way. But I have to admit that they have not deteriorated as fast or as obviously as I had expected. I believe, though, that we may now be approaching a critical point, where service failures will become much more evident.
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