The Case for Change

The Case for Change This report sets out the urgent need for a new approach to children’s social care in England. Our children’s social care system is a 30-year-old tower of Jenga held together with Sellotape: simultaneously rigid and yet shaky. There have been many reviews and attempts at reform since the landmark introduction of the 1989 Children Act and though each has ushered incremental progress, we are now left with a high stack of legislation, systems, structures, and services that with their sheer complicatedness make it hard to imagine something different, let alone address foundational problems. The Independent Review of Children's Social Care

See also: 

• Care services too focused on investigating families in crisis, says review BBC News
• Children’s services in England shaky as Jenga tower, says review lead The Guardian
• Social care in England is 'a tower of Jenga held together with Sellotape', independent review warns Sky News