Karen Wright, the new chief executive of the organisation, is keen to add her mark to the charity's long and varied history.
"We've gone from mainly running children's homes to developing outreach services, supported housing for looked-after children, education services for children excluded from school and a virtual college," she says. "Looking forward, we will be expanding our supported housing, our education services and looking at providing fostering."
Wright is determined that any changes she introduces at Shaftesbury will correspond to the priorities outlined by the government. Not least because the economic climate is affecting the charity's provision - with one of its children's homes set to close down.
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