In the news this week was a report of children going hungry in Britain. The worry and stress on the parents faced with feeding their children will take a toll too - who will pay for the health bill?

click here to see report (from Channel 4)

Many people can't understand or believe that this can happen in our country, and look to blame the parents. If parents do have their values muddled and appear to care more about having a plasma TV than about feeding their children properly then they need help, not criticism, because criticism isn't going to sort out the problems, just as arguing about it doesn't either.

Meanwhile Action for Children have decided this coming week to concentrate on busting myths around foster care as "more than 90,000 children are currently in care around the UK, a 13 per cent rise since 2008"!

The trauma for children that leads to them needing to be in care is heart breaking.

I know that finding adequate foster care needs addressing, but when will the Charities, Government, policy makers, think outside the box, and start seriously addressing preventing the need for children to go into care as much as possible?

This could be done by (as I've already mentioned)  giving new parents to be better, (not less!) antenatal care, for both parents to be, including some counselling if needed. Introducing infant massage instruction in a postnatal package for all parents as standard practise, with counselling support if needed. And introducing the 'Roots to Empathy programme' to every school.