Channel Four's Dispatches programme, screened last November, highlighted examples of bad practice, and ministers have pledged to look at "ramping up" standards and training.
But last week it was time to celebrate the positive. Betty Gibson, manager of Slatyford Lane Children's Home in Newcastle, was one of 25 winners from across the children's care sector in the first young people's awards for adults working with children in care, organised by the Who Cares? Trust (Children Now, 16-22 March).
She tells Children Now of her shock at being nominated and stresses her job wouldn't be possible if she wasn't part of a supportive team.
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