What should we do with the wealth of information and recommendations for change?

Abstract

Almost every day over the past few years, the media have reported shocking incidents and systemic failures in children’s services. At the same time, the system has been deluged with reports exposing worrying situations and proposing solutions. Debussy’s comment on Beethoven’s Choral Symphony that ‘It’s a wonder it hasn’t been submerged entirely beneath the mass of words it has excited’ seems apposite.