Job prospects The council needs social workers, especially in children's safeguarding services.
Private providers will allow authorities to "harness third-party expertise" and "stimulate new approaches to securing improvements" for safeguarding services outside "traditional hierarchies", the document says.
Britain's biggest child protection charity, the NSPCC, said it was agnostic about who provided safeguarding services, saying the question was about "how good a service is at turning children's lives around".
Wilshaw pointed out that child protection services were experiencing stark increases in demand at a time when the government was making large cuts to council budgets, putting intense pressure on safeguarding services.
The DfE emphasised that the sole intention of the consultation was to improve safeguarding services: "The proposals were concerned with improving the quality of children's services rather than savings, 'privatisation' or profit-making".
At the launch of the white paper, Planning Birmingham's Future and Budget Consultation 2014-15, Bore said an extra £10m had been made available for children's safeguarding services and no jobs would be lost in this area.
Even after he ordered an Ofsted report on Haringey's safeguarding services, she had no inkling that she was to be sacked and offered up as what the appeal court judges called a "public sacrifice".
He said there was a "spectacular lack of diversity" in local safeguarding services and police forces that meant many of those involved in Prevent did not understand the communities they serve, particularly in cities such as London and Birmingham.
Munn argues that the government concession is not enough: the regulations will not prevent big corporates setting up a "front" charity to run safeguarding services which would then sell services (such as residential care home placements for children taken into care) back to the profit-making parent company.
Kathy Evans, chief executive of Children England, which represents more than 100 children's charities, said although there was a need to explore new ways of improving child safeguarding services, profit-making firms were not the answer: "Michael Gove must ensure that no commercial company and its shareholders should ever be able to make profit from public spending on child protection.
