The Government has made changes to the Children and Social Work Bill in a bid to sooth fears that private organisations could profit from social services.
Campaigners, MPs and academics had raised concerns that a controversial clause in the Bill would give the secretary of state power to exempt local authorities from statutory responsibilities in order to ‘innovate’.
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