Speaking at CYP Now's Safeguarding Children conference on 27 March, Andrew Webb set the scene for why children's services need to think differently about how child protection services are provided in the future.
As he prepared to relinquish his presidency of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS), Webb highlighted the fact that despite increasing demands on children's services, local authority spending will have dropped to 2005/06 levels by next year.
"We need to create a much lower unit cost for everything we do while keeping the same number of children in the system, or we have to look differently at the system."
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