MPs slam funding crisis and 'postcode lottery' of children's services

Report finds under-funded social services stretched to brink of collapse, and huge differences in treatment of youngstersChildren’s social services are being engulfed by a funding crisis in which nine out of 10 local authorities are struggling to meet their legal duties and families face a postcode lottery, a damning report has concluded.
The inquiry by MPs, led by a former Conservative children’s minister, Tim Loughton, has found “wildly different approaches” in the ways