What is the difference between £2.6bn over five years for children’s social care and £200m over two years? The answer is a huge pit of disappointment.
It is the gap between the couple of billion pounds for the wide-ranging recommendations and ‘total reset’ that was called for by Josh MacAlister last year in his independent review and the cash the Government has come up with in its reform strategy.
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