Nursery World - Government unveils major children’s social care reforms with £200m investment

Plans to reform England’s children’s social care system by putting families ‘at its heart’ have been launched by the Government.

The Department for Education outlined the plans today (2 February) which include a £200m package to ‘fix’ the system over the next two years.

The new Children’s Social Care Implementation Strategy outlines the Department's initial response to the year-long independent review, chaired by Josh MacAlister, which looked into the tragic murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson.

Early support for families that ‘reduces the need for crisis response’ at a later stage will be the main focus of the reform, building on from the 80 proposals to reform the system put forward by the review panel.

Responding to the Government’s new strategy — Children’s Care: Stable Homes, Built on Love, more details of which are expected to be published by the DfE later today – MacAlister described it as a ‘step in the right direction’ but it must go ‘further and faster’ to reach the tipping point.

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