Demand and funding pressures have forced councils to overspend on children’s social care budgets by more than £3bn in the past five years, new analysis by the Local Government Association (LGA) has revealed.
More than eight in 10 councils were forced to spend more than £800m more than they planned to on children’s social care last year alone.
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