Details are still lacking, but initial suggestion is that many of the MacAlister report’s findings will be enacted

Two years ago a government-commissioned report laid bare the crisis affecting children’s social care in England and called for an urgent multibillion-pound overhaul to reform a system that it said was spiralling out of control.

The author of the report, Josh MacAlister, warned that a continued failure to tackle major problems in children’s services would lead to record numbers of youngsters entering care within a decade, at huge cost to families and the taxpayer.