Fostering and adoption crisis

In the news today - Education secretary , Micheal Gove has announced that money ear marked for Sure Start and early years support is to be taken from local councils and used for a national scheme to be used for adoption!

Link to Guardian Article

Whilst addressing the short fall of people needed for adoption (and fostering) is important, emptying money from the pot of early years to partially fill another is complete folly. Especially if it's from the "prevention pot"!


Cllr Ralph Berry, lead member for children's services on Bradford council said:
"If you pull the money out of early intervention you will end up with more children who will need to be adopted... because you will have lost the services that prevent children and families getting into that situation."

 Last night after some time spent on writting up the next post, I lost everything, I hope that I will be able to rewrite it tomorrow as I want to clarify the goals of this blog. I've learnt to save everything in a different document now!