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WEEK ENDING 12TH OCTOBER 2025
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The next couple of days we focus on the new Children’s Minister’s Speech at his party’s recent conference.
Every new Minister brings a new ‘ambitious’ and ‘bold’ reform, few get to see it through, they aren’t there long enough (7 ministers in last 5yrs).
He does indeed have some ‘ambitious’ plans.
One is to create an “excess carers,” some of whom may never foster.
Who would go through months of assessment, training and panel, driven by a passion to care for children, only to be told they may never do it?
Despite millions of pounds invested, we are still facing a shortfall of 8,000 foster carers. Framing the goal as achieving an “excess” of carers is neither ambitious nor feasible; it risks distracting from the real priorities we should be focusing on.
We will be reaching out to work collaboratively with the new Children’s Minister and look forward to being a key part of change.
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Date: 06/10/2025
The Children’s Minister told the Labour Party Conference he wants children to “choose where and with whom they live.” Ambitious words, but again, there’s ambitious and there’s ridiculous.
He also says it’s an ‘alien’ concept, but it isn’t, social workers have been trying tirelessly to achieve this in unbelievably challenging circumstances, it’s called ‘Matching’.
Right now the system struggles to find ANY placement. Are children meant to browse foster families like a catalogue?
With 8,000 carers missing, the idea of “choice” is political poetry, not reality.
And again, notice he doesn’t say HOW. Because they’ve tried for years, and failed.
Until policymakers stop burying their heads in the sand and listen to those of us who foster, nothing will change.
Recruitment will keep failing, carers will keep leaving, and children will be left without the homes they deserve.
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Date: 07/10/2025
At the Labour Conference, the Minister said the care system’s “obsession” should be lifelong, loving relationships, through schemes like Lifelong Links. Of course we all want strong relationships for children. But here’s the problem: this is fixing damage AFTER it’s been done.
Many of us know exactly why children lose attachments in the first place, unstable placements, allegations, poor contact arrangements, a system that silences foster carers and gives too much power to bureaucracy. I’m sure you can name a few?
Yet instead of addressing those causes, politicians fund schemes to patch things up afterwards.
Until they listen to foster carers, they will keep missing the point. That’s why recruitment fails, retention collapses, and children pay the price of rhetoric over reality.
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Date: 08/10/2025
🌟 What’s Next at the NUPFC?
Every day, while we wait for the Judge’s ruling that could take us straight to the Supreme Court, we are fighting for you.
✋ We’re standing beside carers in the toughest moments – in allegations, in panels, in casework, making sure no one faces this alone.
✋ We’re pressing government to recognise your union, so every carer knows they have dedicated representation.
✋ We’re building a network of NUPFC Reps across the UK – familiar faces you can trust, backed by legal power.
✋ We’re pushing the Department for Education to fix the allegations system that is failing carers and harming children.
✋ And we’re challenging the outdated narrative. Foster care is not “a spare room and a big heart.”
It’s skilled, qualified, trauma-informed work. It’s 24/7. It’s life-changing.
👉 What can you do? Stand with us. The power is in our numbers. The strength is in our solidarity.
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Date: 09/10/2025
More children are being pushed back home, often because it’s politically popular or framed the best thing. But what about the child’s voice?
68% of children in foster care aren’t there lightly. They’ve experienced harm, neglect, fear. And yet, when they clearly say home isn’t safe, too often their words are dismissed.
Reunification is important, but not at the expense of listening. If you’re on the frontline, you know: the child’s feelings, their lived reality, must always come first. Policy should never override that.
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Date: 10/10/2025
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