Description: Personal blog and website of Dr. Calum Webb. Quantitative social science, child welfare, social policy, and occassional Rstats.
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This submission has been compiled by a group of university researchers whose work has addressed similar themes and issues, with a common concern being the relationship between children’s social care services, socio-economic factors such as poverty and deprivation, and avoidable inequalities in child welfare interventions. It builds upon a previous submission made by the authors in response to the Call for Evidence.
Let's clear up some misconceptions about data on local authority children's services spending over the past ten years. I've seen this discussion pop up now and again in relation to the Independent Review of Children's Social Care's Case for Change, but also in internal and external reviews of academic journal articles.