In a landmark speech to the NSPCC this month, Education Secretary Michael Gove called for a radical rethink of how children's services are organised.
Among a flurry of pronouncements, he suggested that child protection services could be delivered outside of local authority control and went on to express his confidence that independent trusts, like the one being created to turn around troubled Doncaster, will grow in the future. Taken alongside recent legislative announcements by the Department for Education, his words have stoked concerns that the government is intent on privatising children's services. So what exactly is the government planning, and what will the impact be on services for children and young people?
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