According to the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) paper, What is Care For?, a total “re-examination of the care system” is necessary to address long-standing problems.
Directors plan to probe three key areas including how to better serve the needs of young people in the care system, how to improve placement stability, and how to secure more permanent placements for children who are not adopted.
The paper highlights the lack of evidence on effective practice to support young people entering care, and the need to review how services are tackling the difficulties that young people in care face.
Special attention will be paid to services for adolescents and the links between young people who enter care as teenagers and then go on to become entrants to the youth justice system.
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