One of Michael Gove’s last acts as education sectary will come to pass as regulations permitting English local authorities to outsource child protection services will be established any day now.

Shadow children’s minister Steve McCabe confirmed Labour would wave the new regulations through but promised that a future labour government would scrap if things went wrong.

There has been strong opposition to the outsourcing of children’s services with 72,000 people signing a petition against the move as well as social work advisor Professor Eileen Munro voicing here concerns. The government responded to public distain by restricting the outsourcing agreements to charities and not for profit organisations.

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