We can achieve this though better commissioning, child-centred practice and regulation that works.” (‘New ADCS president calls for long-term plan for children’, cypnow.co.uk, 22 April)
More than a few years ago, Charlotte and I made conference presentations together. I spoke to “The making and breaking of relationships” and showed how the actions of care professionals acted to create rising 3+/5+ placements per year. Structurally and systemically, the potential for attachment and relationships were broken.
My encouragement was that if she and local authorities did not like what was on offer, they could and should open their own homes. I would hope to see Salford have been opening homes in the intervening years. I would hope to see North West authorities having opened homes. In the last Ofsted figures published, the numbers of local authorities opening homes was less than 10 per cent of the total.
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