In a scathing attack on the current system, review chair Josh MacAlister describes the current system as “shaky” likening it to “a 30-year-old tower of Jenga held together with Sellotape”.
The Case for Change is the first report published by the review, which was launched in January.
It lays out MacAlister’s key areas of focus for the long-awaited examination of children’s social care in England which is due to take between 12 and 16 months to complete.
Here CPY Now examines seven things we learnt from the report:
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The Case for Change describes the current system as having “a systemic overconfidence that additional top down duties or changes to legislation will lead to positive change for children and families”.
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