CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

More cross-agency help needed

Care bosses have called for more cross-agency support to help vulnerable children as figures revealed a sharp rise in referrals to social care.

By Jamie Hailstone, Dan Peters | 18 November 2014

Care bosses have called for more cross-agency support to help vulnerable children as figures revealed a sharp rise in referrals to social care.

The Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) this week published its latest set of safeguarding pressures, which revealed a rise of more than 11% in the number of referrals to children's social care in the latest financial year.

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