Adoption is important and matters - but so does fostering. this article is a plea for recognition of the brilliant but under recognised role that fostering plays in the care of our children.
Any government consistently promoting the message that any particular care option is the gold standard of permanence, instead of really examining the needs of each individual child, shows a lack of understanding of the situation that social workers, and children's services, are facing every single day.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/kevin-williams/foster-care-works-_b_8988094.html
