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Use fostering and children's homes based on evidence and assessment, not finance or ideology, 22 May 2013
Twice as many care leavers as other young adults expected to move out, 24 October 2012
Statement from NAFP on After Care report, 12 March 2012
Foster care must be commissioned on a level playing field, 24 January 2012
NCSG launch three new children’s services National Contracts, 22 March 2011
NAFP in the News
Associations criticise care placement decision making, Children & Young People Now, 23 May 2013
Foster carers' concern for children's welfare with cuts, BBC News Wales; BBC Wales Today (at 9.45mins); Good Evening Wales (at 23.20 mins) 21 May 2013
Independent providers plead for greater autonomy, Children & Young People Now, 5 March 2013
'Bedroom tax' hits foster care, ITV News, 7 February 2013
National Children and Adults Conference 2012 Storify, 26 October 2012
Should foster carers register with multiple agencies? Children & Young People Now, 2 October 2012
Tim Loughton loses job as children's minister, Community Care, 4 September 2012
Looked-after children produce cookery book, Children & Young People Now, 29 May 2012
Recruiting and retaining foster carers: live discussion, Guardian Social Care Network, 16 May 2012
Children's services procurement 'too costly and bureaucratic', Children & Young People Now, 15 May 2012
Good carers must be retained, Children & Young People Now, 21 February 2012
We must avoid a free-for-all over delivery of services, Third Sector, 10 January 2012
Councils pressurise foster carers to become special guardians, Community Care, 14 October 2011
Adoption debate misses the reality of children in care, Community Care, 30 September 2011
Residential care sector proposes radical rethink of public sector reforms, Children & Young People Now, 12 September 2011
Foster carer shortages versus extreme beliefs, Community Care, 23 May 2011
Foster care: 'The best job I've ever done', The Guardian, 18 May 2011
Foster providers need to make long-term plans sooner, The Guardian, 18 May 2011
The charity's 'squeezed middle' cuts challenge, guardian.co.uk, 4 April 2011
New charter to bust foster care myths, PIR Education, 23 March 2011
Bid to make foster carers undergo drug/alcohol hair tests, Community Care, 21 March 2011