The head of a Government-funded family group has criticised current child protection schemes as disproportionately bureaucratic, and urged greater spending on front line services. Mary MacLeod, the Family and Parenting Institute’s chief executive for the past decade, claimed measures intended to safeguard young people risked creating “perverse” consequences and relied too heavily on technology. She said that many problems could be solved if money was spent instead on health visitors to check up on every family when they have a baby.
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