Six steps to improve the lives of foster carers and vulnerable children | Martin Barrow

The sector feels let down by two recent reviews, but there are still clear ways to help foster families

Inquiries are like buses: you wait for ages and two come along at once. Fostering has been ignored by officialdom for so long that when separate reviews were launched by MPs andthe Department for Education, it was inevitable that expectations would run high. Not so much among foster carers, who have learned through bitter experience that not much ever changes. But children’s services, fostering agencies, social workers and care leavers all saw this as a golden opportunity to press for changes they felt were urgently needed.

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