Welcome to another week.
The Children’s Minister, Vicky Ford, announced on 3 November that a large-scale review of the care system the Conservative party promised in its election manifesto would launch “imminently”.
The comment was made by Ford at the National Children and Adult Services Conference.
The child welfare system is no stranger to reviews. Type in “care review” into our search engine on this site, and dozens of entries appear. Despite the number of reviews that have taken place in the last decade alone, some experts and child welfare professionals agree that not much has changed inside the system for children.
However the current government, and past government which have ordered these reviews, take a different view. Many politicians believe that these investigations have raised awareness of the biases and bad practice inside the child welfare sector and have led to improvements for children in care.
Our question this week then, is in the form of a poll:
Researching Reform 
Synchronistically this morning I woke from a dream about working with a looked after child and their foster carer. Despite having retired from child care work nineteen years ago, I still get these occasional dreams, all of which leave me feeling sad, dispirited and not good enough. The person I would trust to do the right thing in leading such a review is Carolyne Willow who I last had contact with twenty-four years ago!
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No because I’ve not seen things improve since the late 90’s. Too much seems to get looked at in house and that’s when it does even get looked at. Some even go onto self investigate their own complaints.
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I can only quote the lyrics from a song by DilAmitri
Nothing ever happens
Nothing happens at all
The needle returns to the start of the song
And we all sing along like before. . . . .
And we’ll all be lonely tonight, and lonely tomorrow.
[Sorry to be so cynical after all these years].
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