Like many of our colleagues across the system, I am a strong advocate of kinship care and recognise the principle, set out in the Children Act 1989, that children are best looked after within their families, friends or other people who are connected with them, so I welcome this focus. However, there is always a risk that when the system focuses strongly on one area, it loses some of its focus on others and so today, I wanted to highlight another crucial element of permanency – adoption.
It is, as I am sure most people know, National Adoption Week (21 – 27 October) and this year the focus is on adoption journeys of all kinds - emphasising the diversity of adoptive families and the range of different routes to adoption. There is also an emphasis on those who support the families on their journey.
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