Years ago I secured a post managing a placements team for a local authority. There was a requirement that the team had to search for placements in the council’s own care services before we sought permission to search in the independent sector.
On one occasion we were asked to find a home for a child with complex needs who attended a local special school as a day pupil. The request was sent out to our council foster carers and we were pleased to find a carer able to meet his specific communication needs. The problem however, was that despite still fostering for the authority, she had moved 40 miles away to a different local authority area. With no time left to consider alternative options, I was instructed to make the placement.
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