CYP Now - Care Review: Government’s pilot plan unlikely to bring change, peer warns

Government plans to “test and review” recommendations made in its response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care are “unlikely to lead to the level of investment and change that the system so desperately needs”, a peer has said.

Baroness Tyler urged greater investment in reforming children's social care. Picture: UK Parliament

In a debate around ministers’ response to a report by the Children and Families Act 2014 committee, entitled An inadequate example of implementation, Baroness Tyler of Enfield said they had placed a strong focus on their new children’s social care implementation strategy as way to meet recommendations made by peers who described the implementation of the 2014 Act as a “missed opportunity”.

In the government’s response to the Care Review, Stable Homes Built On Love, the Department for Education put forward plans for a £200m pilot to “fix” children’s social care until 2025 before rolling-out longer term initiatives.

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