believing that wealth should be distributed to reduce inequalities and to support people (Davies, 2004). This would be financially supported by the introduction of taxation on people that worked called National Insurance. Through providing this service the government was a demonstration to the public that it was taking responsibility for maintain a minimum standard of care (Turbett et al., 2014). Subsequently, these reports were the driving factor for The Children Act 1948, the first piece of legislation which endorsed working with families and recognising social work as a professionally (Pierson, 2012). However Butler and Hickman,( 2011) argues that this legislation simply implies preservation and prevention work with families. Each local authority then created a children officer in charge of managing the public child care and social work with children. Previous to The Children Act 1948 was The Poor Law (1834 cited in Dean, 2013, p171), which had limited regulations with regards to children and the responsibility the state had towards minors. Currently parental responsibility is shared between the parents and local authority under section 33(4) Children Act 1989, but the local authority may only exercise its power when safeguarding or promoting the child’s welfare (Brayne, Carr and Goosey, 2015). In the youth of social work there was growing concerns about the overlapping or gaps in so>