They will grill senior Department for Education officials following a damning report by the National Audit Office (NAO), which recently concluded that children in care still have very poor outcomes and that the department is not effectively measuring whether or not the care system is working.
It's all too easy to find fault with state care. But the notion that tens of thousands of children are being failed is far too simplistic and a gross distortion of what research has found. Damage is done way before a child enters the care system and for those who have planned entries and spend longer in stable placements, the experience can be transformational.
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