Image copyright Thinkstock Image caption Some 800,000 children need protection every year Children are being left “at risk of harm” because of the government"s failure to develop “credible” plans to improve child protection, MPs warn.
“Urgent” action is needed to end the variations in the quality of help for vulnerable children in England, the Public Accounts Committee says.
The MPs called for the publication of detailed plans to transform child protection services.
The government says it has a relentless focus on keeping children safe.
The MPs said progress had been “too slow” in the five-and-a-half years since a government-commissioned review, the Munro Report, called for a major overhaul of the system.
Professor Eileen Munro was commissioned by then Education Secretary Michael Gove to conduct a review of child protection services.
"Completely unacceptable"Her 2011 report called for social workers to be freed from excessive bureaucracy, centrally imposed targets and ..
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