Needs measures must change

Despite the legal requirement that local authorities should identify and assist ‘children in need’, children’s services agencies are still struggling to do so meaningfully and efficiently, we argue in the latest edition of the British Journal of Social Work.

Nick Axford's article analyses the strengths and weaknesses of prevalent approaches to determining the needs of child populations England and Wales before discussing new methods. It also argues how resources could and should be transferred to these more robust approaches. Failure to make wider use of them is endangering attempts to achieve better outcomes for children, Axford claims.
 
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