The UK Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza is in her fourth year of a six-year term. This report summarises her work on children’s social care, and the work of her office, since taking up the position on March 1, 2021. The report does two things. Firstly, it highlights how far away the children’s social care system is from where it needs to be, despite much well-intentioned work and nods to reform. It sets out the continued breaches of children’s rights, to education, to alternative care, and to liberty. Secondly, it sets out a vision for how the system could change, with a set of ambitious recommendations for transforming children’s social care, with children’s rights at its heart.
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