Children’s social care in England is undergoing one of the most significant periods of reform since the Children Act 1989. Through Families First, government advances an ambitious vision of early intervention and relationship-based practice.

Yet without workforce capacity, that vision risks becoming wishful thinking. In this BASW PSW essay, Dr Charles Mugisha asks whether reform can succeed if the conditions that enable relationships — time, judgement and sustainable caseloads — remain out of reach.

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Mission impossible: why the Families First reforms to children’s services are wishful thinking