Over the past few weeks, I’ve hosted three sessions for directors, practitioners and commissioners from five councils to share with each other how they are making the most of the Valuing Care approach. Here are three of my reflections.
We’re delighted that Nadhim Zahawi has accepted all the recommendations made in the independent report 'Foster Care in England'.
I am pleased that the debate on funding for children’s services is getting more traction at a national level,…
Our national fostering system has been neglected for too long. Despite being the mainstay of our statutory parenting capacity, and…
As the recent Guardian article illustrates (‘Greedy Financiers profiting from the Pain of Children’), the debate about the market for…
In mulling over the quandaries facing our clients on regional adoption agencies (RAAs) I was considering how to clarify some…
This month Children and Families Minister Edward Timpson committed to a “national stocktake of fostering”. In response to the national…
The NAO report on Children in Care laid some heavy gauntlets at the door of DfE and the wider sector last…
