In my view, there are more opportunities today. Various reports over theyears, lamenting poor outcomes for children in care, have found that akey barrier has been the lack of joined-up services. Schools did notunderstand the special needs of children in care; foster carers andresidential workers may have been good at caring, but did not appreciatethe importance of education; health services treated all children thesame - and so on.
However hard we tried, the different professionals stayed in theirboxes.
Now we have had Every Child Matters and the Children Act 2004. Systemsat the top have started to change in every area - joint planning, jointgovernance, joint management. The old barriers are beginning to fallaway at the front line - and perhaps the many lessons we have learnedcan be applied to help children in care.
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