An additional 10,500 kids may go into care in England, costing £1bn extra over ten years. That’s the conclusion of analysis solely shared with Channel 4 Information by 5 main kids’s charities.
Motion for Kids, Barnardo’s, The Kids’s Society, the NSPCC and the Nationwide Kids’s Bureau commissioned Alma Economics to mannequin the federal government’s response to final yr’s Impartial Evaluate of Kids’s Social Care, led by Josh MacAlister.
The analysis, shared with Channel 4 Information, warns that the federal government is ready to spend an extra £1 billion on kids’s social care over 10 years on account of not instantly implementing the overview’s suggestions.
The Division for Training says it’s “remodeling the system to give attention to extra early assist for households, decreasing the necessity for disaster response at a later stage.”