
At its best it can protect children from harm and help them recover from traumatic early experiences.
At Barnardo’s, we know from our direct experience supporting thousands of children in care across the UK that one of the greatest challenges they face is still instability. For far too many children, living in care can feel like being ‘bounced around’ a system, with frequent changes of home leaving them feeling endlessly unsettled.
In his first speech as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson spoke of a need to “level up across Britain”. I firmly believe that for this vision to succeed we need to achieve lasting change for the country’s most vulnerable children – by stepping in earlier to help families who are struggling, and by improving support for children who do need to be placed with a foster family or in residential care.
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