CHILD ABUSE

Don't scrap IROs, shadow minister warns

Scrapping independent reviewing officers could open the floodgates to child abuse, the shadow children's minister has warned.

By Hiba Mahamadi | 15 March 2018

Scrapping independent reviewing officers (IROs) could open the floodgates to child abuse, the shadow children's minister has warned.

An independent review on foster care by Sir Martin Narey and Mark Owers, commissioned by the Department for Education and published last month, recommended the scrapping of IROs.

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