In mulling over the quandaries facing our clients on regional adoption agencies (RAAs) I was considering how to clarify some of the thinking and share some of their pain. Then, when lamenting the lack of reasoned debate on a recent social care news piece,…
Alastair Thompson
DfE’s fostering ‘stocktake’
August 17, 2016
This month Children and Families Minister Edward Timpson committed to a “national stocktake of fostering”. In response to the national news piece about the ‘poaching’ of council foster carers and the attendant claims of profiteering, Mr Timpson said that the stocktake would “include looking at…
New Models in Fostering
October 19, 2015
iMPOWER recently conducted a survey of senior officers on the subject of alternative delivery models in children’s services. The response indicated that, over the next two years, over a third of councils will be actively exploring alternative delivery models across all children’s services, and…
Children’s Services Funding is Too Important For This Guessing Game
December 3, 2014
The NAO report on Children in Care laid some heavy gauntlets at the door of DfE and the wider sector last week. Let me start by paraphrasing some of the findings: Demand is increasing, by which they mean the number of children in care is…
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