The latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:
- A Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime: Relational Permanence Among Young Adults with Foster Care Backgrounds – Research
- NHS vows to stop locking up autistic children
- NHS to improve young people’s hospital mental health, learning disability and autism services
Researching Reform 
Whenever I read the research into how foster children view their world & what they are feeling, I become more convinced that foster care is not the answer.
These children taken from their families live their lives on relationship shifting sands. It’s not surprising as social workers isolate the children by stoping contact with their birth families once the child is in care. No doubt to preserve foster relationships, (that are transient) but that doesn’t help the child. It has to be said the Swedish keep the birth family involved with no discernible disruption to the foster family.
It’s clear these children miss their families & that creates a void. That void is filled with transient relationships when permanency is what they need. It goes beyond relationships & that instability seeps into other aspects of their lives. No wonder a large proportion of care leavers have mental issues.
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