Cloud cuckoo land

Tim Loughton and his "Adoption Tsar" are living in cloud cuckoo land aren't they? And
covering the same old ground as Blair &Co did 10 years ago. Difficult not to get a
sense of déjà vu reading this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16285610

Remember this?

http://cl.ly/1B1S273M060a3u0l1b0m (downloads a PDF)

I agree in principle with what it says here in 'In Loco Parentis' a project from the
Demos think tank which was sponsored by Barnardo's at the time when Martin
Narey was still its CEO. He should perhaps revisit some of what it says

http://cl.ly/39223C3F223n1w2z0M0r (downloads a PDF)

Quote:

In practice there will always be a group of children for whom prevention from
entering care or permanent solutions such as adoption are not realistic outcomes.
Instead of oscillating between these positions of ‘prevention’ and ‘permanency’ we
should aim to use public care far more proactively to:

· provide support to families as soon as they need it rather than waiting until they
reach crisis point

· achieve early permanency for those children who can not return to their families

· provide stability for those children and young people for whom a permanent solution
is not desirable or feasible

Note the last bullet point there, more needs to be done for those children for whom
adoption is not feasible, instead of trying to force an unfeasible solution to work
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