United Kingdom: Care review maintains stance that children’s services over-investigate families despite Ofsted pushback
Community Care – October 15, 2021
The children’s social care review has maintained its position that children’s services open too many investigations into families, despite Ofsted rejecting this. Responding to the sector’s feedback to its ‘case for change’ report published in June, the review said it was important to resolve why the number of child protection investigations that did not result in a child protection plan had increased threefold in the decade to 2019-20. In the ‘case for change, the review, led by Josh MacAlister, cited this statistic to claim that “the system too often focuses its efforts on investigating and assessing parents without providing real help for the family to deal with the problems they are facing”.
https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2021/10/15/care-review-maintains-stance-that-childrens-services-over-investigate-families-despite-ofsted-pushback/