Lemn Sissay: ‘brilliant’ plans to improve child social care ignored by ministers

Poet says government has not acted on 2022 MacAlister review because reforming system is not a vote winnerUK politics – latest updatesThe poet and broadcaster Lemn Sissay has accused ministers of ignoring “brilliant” recommendations to improve the “dysfunctional” children’s social care system in England because they are not vote winners.Sissay, whose bestselling memoir My Name Is Why was a reflection on his own childhood in care, said the government had &ldquo