She called for a more child-centred system then, but a decade on we are still working with overly transactional services and children who are passed from professional to professional, with boxes ticked and paperwork filed.
We have just responded to the Department for Education’s consultation: Reforms to unregulated provision for children in care and care leavers. We worked with our National Leaving Care Benchmarking Forum and The Young People’s Benchmarking Forum to collect the views of frontline local authority leaving care teams as well as young care leavers to inform the response.
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