Alongside other leading children’s charities - Barnardo’s, The Children’s Society, National Children’s Bureau and Action for Children - we’ve written to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak to call on them to commit to a radical reform of the children’s social care system in England.
Sir Peter Wanless (NSPCC), Lynn Perry MBE (Barnardo’s), Mark Russell (The Children’s Society), Anna Feuchtwang (National Children’s Bureau) and Melanie Armstrong (Action for Children) have written to the two candidates to be the next Prime Minister.
This letter urges them to prioritise implementing the recommendations from the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care should they make it to Number 10.
In the letter the five chief executives emphasise how without leadership and action from the top of Government outcomes for vulnerable children and families will remain stubbornly poor across the country.