The Commission for Social Care Inspection's chair, Dame Denise Platt,recently said she was concerned that the voice of social care would belost in the move to a single inspectorate (Children Now, 18-24 May).
The children's sector has been divided over plans to scrap thecommission and create a single inspectorate for children headed byOfsted, a move announced by Chancellor Gordon Brown in March. Plattdescribed the announcement as a farce.
These fears were heightened when it emerged that the new children'sinspectorate might lack the children's rights function that is currentlycarried out by the commission's Dr Roger Morgan. He has a legal duty tofind out what children supported by social services think (Children Now,3-16 August).
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