Mark Owers

Mark Owers

Mark Owers is a children's social care consultant

Feature

Making a foster care system to work for all

Social Care
Professional

Leadership: Regional working

Children's Services
Features

Commissioning: Five solutions for services in 2025

Children's Services
Features

Six steps to help improve adoption

Social Care
In response to the 2022 care review, which called for 9,000 additional carers, the government committed to a centrally-funded Fostering Recruitment and Retention Programme. Picture: Fizkes/Adobe Stock
Analysis

Local authorities band together to recruit more foster carers

Social Care
Adoption must be about the best interests of the child rather than adopters’ needs. Picture: Viacheslav Yakobchuk
Analysis

Changes to turn tide on adoption decline

Social Care
Mark Owers: 'These approaches will help to get everyone on the same page, speaking the same language about needs'
Opinion

Better assessments key to the right support

Your Shout
The conference took place in Manchester. Picture: NCASC/Twitter
Blogs

Lessons on leadership from NCASC22

Guest Blog
Mark Owers: "There is a golden opportunity to bank the successes of the board, apply the learning, and create new national leadership"
Opinion

Mark Owers: It’s time to abolish the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board

Social Care
Blogs

Care Review must focus on whole systems

Guest Blog