Child care reforms are investigated

Child care reforms are investigated
4:10am Sunday 28th March 2010


By Richard Vernalls »

THE rules around how children are taken into care across the county are being reviewed.

Councillors are forming a task force to look at the criteria for how vulnerable young people are taken into care.

Worcestershire county councillor Barry Gandy, chairing the task force, said the review decision had been taken in light of recent “high profile” cases of child neglect including that of Baby P in Haringey, north London, and Khyra Ishaq, in Birmingham, which had highlighted failures in other councils’ children’s services departments.

Members will look at the existing criteria in which children are taken into care in the county, the caseload of the children’s services child protection team and whether performance can be monitored.

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