As the Government continues to work toward cutting adoption timescales, professionals are concerned that adoption is a huge undertaking and a decision not to be taken lightly. Will the current focus on adoption have a detrimental effect on fostering and foster care?  ‘We need to value and support foster carers instead of fixating on adoption’  says Judith Rees in The Guardian today.

Read the whole article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/social-care-network/2013/apr/16/value-foster-care-adoption