The policy context on preventing care proceedings

Derren Hayes
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

In the face of tightening council budgets and rising demand for children's social care services, policymakers and local leaders have for the past few years been devising ways to reduce children's services' use of care proceedings.

Programmes to help parents to make changes to their lives have had success in preventing more of their children being taken into care. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock
Programmes to help parents to make changes to their lives have had success in preventing more of their children being taken into care. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock

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