Abstract
Sir William Utting, in his ‘special review’ of residential care for children (DOH/SSI, 1991), asked himself two very particular questions: ‘Is there any point in persevering with residential care? [and] Can it be revived?’ (p. 8). Utting’s review had been commissioned as a direct result of ‘public concern about standards and practices in residential child care’ (p. 3) following publication of The Pindown Experience and the Protection of Children: The Report of the Staffordshire Child Care Inquiry (Staffordshire County Council, 1991). We will deal with the Utting Report’s answers to these questions in chapter 9 when we examine the ‘Pindown’ inquiry in detail. It is the purpose of this chapter to describe the policy and practice context in which such questions came to be asked in the first place.
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