The headline recommendation is that care proceedings should be completed within six months, with various recommendations to support this target. All these are positive and sensible, but they rely on another area of difficulty identified, that of trust.
Courts, social workers and guardians all have a duty to put the welfare of the child first, but each part of the system appears not to trust the others to work together in the interests of the child.
If these recommendations are accepted, this review could be the start of a real improvement in the experience of children caught up in the system. We hope the government will respond quickly and issue a clear timetable for these much-needed reforms.
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