Recession Must Not Be Used As Excuse to Cut Children's Services, Warns Commissioner ; Towler Slams 'Inadequate' Work to Reduce the Impact of Child Poverty

Western Mail › November 10, 2009

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THE recession must not be used as an excuse to backtrack on delivering children's services, it is warned today.

Children's Commissioner for Wales, Keith Towler, said local authorities are not consistently implementing Welsh Assembly Government policies and failing to put the best interests of children at the heart of decisions.

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Recession Must Not Be Used As Excuse to Cut Children's Services, Warns Commissioner ; Towler Slams 'Inadequate' Work to Reduce the Impact of Child Poverty

Among the main concerns in his annual review for 2008-09 are the protection of vulnerable children and the ability of Wales' newly- reorganised health boards to do so. He also criticises action on child poverty as "inadequate" and the UK's youth justice system as being dominated by a punitive approach which do...

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