Conservative manifesto plans to strip children’s services responsibilities from the ‘weakest councils’ have been attacked as a ‘short-sighted and inefficient response to under-performance’.
The manifesto said Conservatives would ‘demand all local authorities be commissioners of the highest-quality family support and child protection services,’ with those services that fail to meet such expectations placed ‘in trust’.
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