Biggest overhaul in a generation to children’s social care
Information for all settings: Keeping Children Safe, Helping Families Thrive publication
On Monday 18 November 2024, the Department for Education published ‘Keeping Children Safe, Helping Families Thrive’, the new Children’s Social Care policy statement. This is the biggest overhaul in a generation to children’s social care.
This is an important new statement summarising government’s vision for a decade of reform and a legislative agenda to reset the children’s social care system. It covers how national government will collaborate with local government and take a whole system approach.
You can read the policy statement in full and the press notice summarising the announcement on GOV.UK now.