Government's fostering stocktake is a huge opportunity wasted | Kevin Williams

The Fostering Network has written to the children’s minister to warn that the recent fostering review is not a sound basis for desperately needed reforms

The Fostering Network – the charity of which I am chief executive – has taken the unusual decision to publish a strongly worded letter sent to the children’s minister, Nadhim Zahawi.

The reason was our extreme disappointment with the fostering stocktake, commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE), and our desire to inform the minister of the overwhelming feeling in the sector that the report is a huge opportunity wasted.

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