The Government’s strategy presents a positive vision for a ‘family-first’ approach to children’s social care, prioritising early family help and valuing the support wider family and friends can offer including as kinship carers.
We welcome the commitment to developing a national kinship care strategy and an ambition to ensure all children in care have positive relationships they can rely on.
However, the reforms and the funding announced fall alarmingly short of the scale of the crisis that is gripping children’s social care.
Read our initial response to the publication
Read our submission to the consultation on the plans
Read our response to proposed revisions to Working Together guidance