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Thanks for highlighting this.Unfortunately, my view is:it's all just FANCY WORDS.Another DOCUMENT.Nothing gets done.Nothing will get done.My personal view - OK?

Yes thanks for highlighting.Have not read every single word but initial thoughts are;All well and good for putting info in front of Government about the needs of children and YP in care/ kinship care and long term foster care.Very scant regard for those children who have been adopted from care - as per usual.An example of this being about workforce Development. Not a word about adopted children entering care for the 2nd time in their lives and the ineptitude of professionals in supporting adopters through this for the benefit of their children.Worse still in para 8.10; A particular role for schools and school support Every sentence talks about children/YP in care with the exception of one which talks about outcomes achieved by vulnerable young people (education speak for LAC). Not one single word about the children and YP in adoptive homes or those in Kinship care. How and why did AUK let that happen ? Are AUK not aware of the huge issues for adopted children in schools ?????????Mention is even made about the priority admissions for LAC - why was the omission made about adopted children getting priority too and where is the call for those in Kinship care to be afforded the same ??????????I would be very interested to know exactly how much time senior members of AUK spent on the care enquiry and why so little talk in the report about adoption and the ongoing difficulties children adopted from care have to live with. Only one very short para about support for children into adulthood.So, a whole new group of people who will think that once that loving stable home is found life is forever rosey.A little disappointing tbh.

JelliesYou said it far more eloquently than I did.Nothing much in there at all about supporting adoptive parents to support their adopted children in the home.Cursory referral to involving parents but as a Section 20 parent myself, I know this is UTTER PANTS.The professionals pay lip service to involving parents.So, to my mind, it's just another glossy document, all very pretty, with lovely words to make people think oh how wonderful, we are all moving forward.But I am actually very cross about it.In fact, Jellies, can you feel the heat from the steam coming out of my ears.....???

From p11 of the research report - children who get adopted make up a very small minority of LAC, they're the lucky ones as far as permanence goes, so we don't need to look at them."But, even for younger children, a shortage ofprospective approved adopters means a growing number of children with adoption plans forwhom adoptive families are not available. Figure 2 shows that the proportion of children adopted below one year of age has fallen. Together, these statistics indicate a need to address permanence other than adoption, to meet the needs of: (a) children for whom an adoptive placement is not available, even if adoption might be the first choice route to permanence; and (b) those children – who are in the majority of looked after children – for whom adoptive placements are not appropriate to meet their permanence needs."