LGA: Children’s social care buckling under budget pressures

Sector bodies urge Phillipson to reconsider Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund cuts

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Sector bodies have urged education secretary Bridget Phillipson to reconsider huge cuts to payments for therapy for care experienced children and their families under the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF). Adoption UK, the Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies (CVAA), Coram and Kinship said the changes risked disrup…

LGA: Children’s social care buckling under budget pressures

Council chiefs have urged the Government to invest more into early intervention to support the children’s social care system as it reaches ‘crisis point’.

Children’s care spending at ‘all-time high’ as early intervention outlay plummets

Around 1,700 children are referred to social care services every day while council spending on early intervention has dropped by £2bn