The Alliance for Children in Care and Care Leavers, a group of 24 organisations in the children's sector including Action for Children, Barnardo's, the NSPCC, The Children's Society and the British Association of Social Workers, is calling for a clearer definition of what care aims to achieve.
They want the government to commit to a "statement in law" that the primary aim of the care system for children and young people is to "achieve recovery and healing from past harm, and to promote resilience and emotional wellbeing".
Alongside this, the alliance wants a new child-led outcomes framework for looked-after children to be introduced so that adherence to the principal aim can be properly assessed and judged.
The framework would be used to measure how all children and young people are coping in care, which could be used to hold local authorities to account.
The alliance is also calling for:
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