Bureaucracy threatens to hold up cash needed to support vulnerable children, the County Councils Network (CCN) has warned.
Local authorities are braced for a surge in demand for children’s social care as the coronavirus lockdown eases, but the 36 CCN members face an estimated £132m of further costs to care budgets due to the pandemic.
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