A welcome start to that was the government's decision last month to amend the bill to allow young people living with a foster family to stay there up to the age of 21. Let us now hope that independent reviewing officers and social workers can honour the spirit of this amendment before it becomes law, which might still be as early as April.
The austerity measures are set to continue with the huge impact on poorer families and children and the struggling local authority services working with them. Nevertheless, if all those in this field ensured that every child in care or leaving care had that important trusted adult and stable relationship as an anchor and support, then we would be making a major difference to individual children.
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