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There are so many ways these days to better advertise what services are about in order to give people a real understanding and to encourage parents to use them. Parents are the best sellers of those pieces of information.
I am not an accountant, so I cannot make this judgment, but there is something about being able to account for how the money from the public purse is spent, and that equates to best value. What does “best value” mean?
I highlight that we do not have a best-interests test in the 2004 act or in the 2010 act, but we have now incorporated the UNCRC, one article of which is about the best interests of the child.