The Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield OBE, recently published the 2018 Stability Index, an annual measure of the stability…
IMPOWER’s Valuing Care programme helps councils improve the life chances of children in care by strengthening the links between…
I am pleased that the debate on funding for children’s services is getting more traction at a national level,…
A recent media story (‘Councils not held to account for commissioning social care, claims MP’) reported the debate in Parliament’s…
The stark reality for care leavers is that the odds are stacked against them. Almost one third (31%) of 18-year…
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…
Four out of ten children in care today might not be there if the system was better organised. That’s one…
Last week another of the essays from our second Shining a Light collection was published in the MJ. The essay…
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