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PM boosts private role in kids’ services
Child protection set to be latest victim of Tory ‘streamlining’
CHILD protection services are facing privatisation under David Cameron’s plans to “reform” public services and “streamline” government.
Speaking in Leeds yesterday, the Prime Minister claimed children’s services were an example of “state failure” that demanded “more ambitious reform.”
And, in a move that mirrors Tory schools policy, he threatened to strip local authorities of responsibility for social services and hand them over to not-for-profit trusts.
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