Children and Young People Scrutiny Panel

Children and Young People Scrutiny Panel this morning ... interesting discussion about funding for social work and child protection services. There was almost universal political agreement that the baseline revenue budget for these issues needs to be radically increased ... I'm not holding my breath for ALL of the political budgets responding to this on February 8th when we set the 2007/08 spend ;-((

It is, no matter what actually happens in February, a real change in attitude from a few years ago when these services were just not considered an absolute priority - by any of the political groups.