Munro: children’s social care reforms ‘very likely to fail’ due to scale of change and lack of testing

Munro: children’s social care reforms ‘very likely to fail’ due to scale of change and lack of testing

The government’s children’s social care reforms in England are “very likely to fail” due to the scale of change involved and the lack of testing. That was the damning verdict from Professor Eileen Munro, the social work academic who led the coalition government’s 2010-11 review into child protection and is the co-creator of the much-used Signs of Safety model. In an interview with Community Care, Munro, emeritus professor of social policy at the…