Devolving budgets to frontline workers to directly support families could reduce the likelihood of children going into care, pilots have found.
Interim results of the trials at three local authorities – Wigan MBC, Hillingdon LBC and Darlington Council - showed that social workers given decision-making control over budgets could help families in ways that would ‘otherwise not be possible’.
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