One study concludes, ‘A failure to acknowledge and address the socioeconomic determinants of child maltreatment raises doubts about the appropriateness of any restructuring of public services’. Policies which tackle the…
The Care Review experts group advised steady change, as would be expected in previous times by a Conservative government. Systems change is best achieved when small scale, incremental, targeted. Better…
How do we understand Commissioning? How do we know when it is happening? How do we assess its significance? If children’s commissioning is not social engineering, then what is it?…
There is no flexibility provided by these standards, an ambition declared in the proposals, that is not possible under the existing regulations for children’s homes. The children’s homes regulations should…
There is a high demand for residential resources. High level complex needs require an equivalent response. We need opportunity to discuss the Care Review inclination towards the resilience of the…