One of the issues that the paper should address is to do with housingcosts, namely ensuring foster carers are eligible for key workeraccommodation. And there is still a need for both placing and receivingauthorities to move away from competition and closer to collaboration,as well as becoming better at commissioning responsive, flexibleservices that address the complex issues many of these children bringwith them when they enter the care system.
However, there is a nagging sense that both central and local governmentare only too aware of what the issues are and that legislation, such asthe Children Act 2004, and even the 1989 Act, have put the requisitestructures and professionals in place, so why do we need another pieceof legislation?
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