17/04/2024: Coverage of the work of committees set up to investigate public policy and society. Education to Employment for Young Disabled People airs on BBC Parliament at 10:45 PM, Saturday 20 April. Coverage of the work of committees set up to investigate public policy and society
The children’s social care system in this country is clearly failing vulnerable young people. That is why the Government was right to launch a new strategy to transform the system to ensure that it worked for children.
The Government has recently published a strategy to address the serious problems in children’s social care. This comes in the wake of an Independent Review which called for a “radical reset” to a system increasingly skewed to crisis intervention, with unacceptably poor outcomes for children and costs that continue to rise.