The overwhelming message from children and families involved in the ambitious Case for Change independent review of children’s social care in England, led by Josh MacAlister, is that they are ‘not getting a good enough deal’.
Mr MacAlister likened the system to a ‘30-year-old tower of Jenga held together with Sellotape: simultaneously rigid and yet shaky’.
He said, ‘Improving children’s social care will take us a long way to solving some of the knottiest problems facing society - improving children’s quality of life, tackling inequalities, improving the productivity of the economy, and truly levelling up.'
Parenting interventions
The Department for Education’s 2019 Children in Need review found that over a six year period, one in ten children had a social worker.
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