Schools should become “corporate parents” responsible for the wellbeing of looked-after children and given a seat at the safeguarding table, according to a landmark review that warned the relationship between social care and education is “consistently fraught”.
Josh MacAlister has published the final report of his independent review of children’s social care.
It warned that without a “dramatic system reset”, outcomes for children and families would remain “stubbornly poor”, and the number of children in care will be approaching 100,000 within ten years.
