I found this article about Fostering / Foster Care and Adoption on BAAF’s website and it struck a chord with me. At present the government is striving to increase adoptions for children in the UK but there are concerns that this could  have a detrimental effect on foster care and fostering and see children adopted too quickly and eventually suffer traumatic placement breakdown.

Fostering / Foster Care and Adoption Working Together

An adoptive parent speaks to BAAF about how integral a successful foster care placement was to the adoption of her son.

http://www.baaf.org.uk/blog/importance-foster-carers