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Wednesday 5 October 2016

The privatisation of child protection: the Child and Social Work bill

"A proposed law would see child social care and protection services opened up for private companies to run. It would also allow over 80 years of child protection law to be swept aside, in what critics are calling a `bonfire` of children’s rights. And the bill could threaten to put already vulnerable and abused children at even greater risk..."

"The Child and Social Work Bill, which is currently being debated in the House of Lords, intends to shake up the legal basis of child services. Currently, laws apply to every child in the country, via local authorities. But the Tories want to change this, by allowing councils to opt out from national law for up to six years. Ultimately, this means social care laws will no longer apply to all children..."

"But crucially, because local authorities would be excluded from national law, it would allow them to bring in private companies to run children’s services. While ministers deny this, the exact same thing is happening in the education system: ‘academisation’."

read more: http://www.thecanary.co/2016/10/03/tories-just-dropped-privatisation-bombshell-media-harps-labour/

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