Crisis in children’s services has its roots in austerity | Letters

Readers respond to reports on the state of social care in England and lack of support for vulnerable families

Patrick Butler is right that the pandemic has made the crisis in children's social care even more acute" (Crisis in children's services in England is shocking if not surprising, 11 August). However, it is difficult to see how the government's review of children's social care will achieve the radical changes needed, for two reasons.

First, it will require a commitment to more progressive taxation and increases in the minimum wage and universal credit to combat major inequalities, including those associated with the rising demand for children's and youth services: childhood poverty, social deprivation, homelessness, poor health, ethnicity and disability.