It is just not the way Gov works with local Gov to suggest they could tell LAs to threaten to fire people.
And rightly so: imagine it in a situation where Govs wanted to implement pernicious austerity reforms and wanted people on message under threat of the sack? What powers would they have to do that? None at all.
I also think it is ridiculously naiveto think that the Gov would ever tell the very people who set up and run and manage these systemically rotten systems to tell the very staff they have trained to indulge in these kind of money saving practices to 'change your ways or leave'.
Even on the face of it, the C&FB doesn't herald a new era. There are no provisions in it which compel (a) greater transparency (b) increased protection for children's rights (c) improved access to justice.
So the law, per se, as it is won't change the system without clearer provision for all of the above. That is what should be being said, not pleas to soften hearts.
This is particuarly so in an environment of 'austerity' as I believe these reforms are now about saving money and shifting kids off statements with EHCPs etc. This can be seen from the pilots.
This is what Timpson and co need to tackle but they won't because the reforms are not supposed to do what they say on the tin.