further as more children are coming onto the radar, there are more children in care now in england than for some time. so although funding has gone up, the demand for that funding has gone up disproportionately and we are seeing some of the consequences of that and that may be an issue in this case. is that partly down to austerity? no, it s partly down to the fact that we are trying to make money go further and further. in the light of baby p, if you remember all those years ago now, 12 years ago with the murder of baby p, a lot of local authorities are said to themselves, we have to make sure we have not got a potential baby p on our hands, as a potential baby p on our hands, as a result of which i think there were a result of which i think there were a lot more interventions and a number of children came into care. i don t know if we need to have more or fewer children don t know if we need to have more orfewer children in care, but we need to have the right children in care. 0n the