The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care made multiple recommendations to reset the children’s social care system. Among these are a set of recommendations which aim to prevent children coming into the care system at all, including improving services so that children can remain safely with their parents. Connected to this are recommendations that promote the involvement of extended family as carers if parents are unable to provide appropriate care. It has always been accepted that growing up in the care system carries a range of challenges and many disadvantages for the child.
Evidence indicates that kinship placements are a positive alternative to mainstream foster care, particularly where this builds on existing relationships and allows the child to remain connected with their origins.
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