Care Review chair Josh MacAlister today (23 May) published the final recommendations from his Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.
Key elements include plans to boost early help in a “fundamental shift” from crisis intervention, changes to social work training including the introduction of pay scales and mandatory family-facing hours for all social workers as well as increased support for kinship carers and a windfall tax on the biggest children’s homes providers.
Responding to the review, the Department for Education has vowed that “vulnerable children and families in England will be better supported by a fundamental shift in how children’s social care services are delivered”.
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