📣 The major report on Northern Ireland’s children’s social care services launches today recommending that a region-wide organisation be created to deliver children’s social care services.🧵

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1/ Northern Ireland’s Care Review has warned a ‘major fix’ is required to tackle long standing issues within services – such as high levels of staff vacancies and many children and families not getting the help they needed.

2/ Professor Ray Jones was appointed by Robin Swann to undertake a review of children’s social care services across Northern Ireland, finding more than 4,000 children on the waiting lists for assessments and help from children’s social care services.

3/ Detailed across 18 chapters, the review sets out only a limited number of recommendations. Professor Jones says this is a ‘deliberate decision’ as too many proposals could mean recommendations may not get the attention they require and may get lost.

4/ Jones adds that a report which was too prescriptive would detract from the ability of senior managers to tailor services to the people they work with.

5/ He said: “The senior managers of services need to be able to shape and own the services which they are leading, albeit whilst being informed by all who are engaging and participating with the services.”

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