Changes are on the way in children's social services in some of the highest-performing local authorities in England. Eight areas are taking part in the Department for Education's Partners in Practice programme designed to explore how children's social care could be done differently (see below).
Cambridgeshire County Council is one of the Partners in Practice authorities. "The programme is an opportunity to look at what we're doing, deconstruct it and put it back together in a different way," says interim director of children's services John Gregg. "I believe we will finish up with services that look and feel different from what already exists."
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