Kevin Williams, the new chief executive of The Fostering Network, is keen to emphasise the often overlooked role that foster care can play in creating permanence for vulnerable young people. So he is quick to jump on my slip of the tongue that more needs to be done to improve adoption support. "It's part of the problem," says Williams, who took up the post at the start of June. "Too often, people link permanence with adoption. But for many children, adoption will not be the right placement move."
For Williams, whose voice has both a soft tone but steely edge, finding the best way of delivering permanence should be the determining factor in deciding what care placement suits a child.
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