This article from Community Care says a lot about politicians approach to protecting children - strong on rhetoric, great at condemnation when things go wrong but unwilling to put their money where their mouth is!
"After all the post-election talk of child protection taskforces, reforming failing children’s services, fixing the care system, strengthening special guardianship assessments, and David Cameron’s increasingly strident rhetoric on wilful neglect and adoption, the government’s comprehensive spending review and Autumn statement passed without mentioning children’s services."
