The commission's chair, Dame Denise Platt, has insisted its drive to raise standards in the regulation and inspection of children's care will continue. "We don't want to lose momentum and have a lot of goodwill to do it," she said. "We are going to carry on until someone tells us to stop."
Children's sector leaders have been divided over plans to scrap the commission and set up a single inspectorate for children, announced by Chancellor Gordon Brown in his Budget in March (Children Now, 23-29 March).
Platt revealed she had "real concerns" that the voice of social care would be lost in the move to a single inspectorate. She also feared that a separate criminal justice inspectorate might lose sight of children's issues.
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