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News from BAAF.(Newspoints)
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Adoption & Fostering
- Article date:
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March 22, 2007
- Author:
- Holmes, David
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David Holmes writes:
I am delighted that BAAF is publishing this special edition of Adoption & Fostering focusing on education. It is particularly timely as the education of children in care has increasingly become the subject of interest and attention across the UK. For example, in England, the recent Green Paper for children in care, Care Matters (DfES, 2006), contained a raft of new proposals to improve their experience of school. Care Matters highlights once again how educational outcomes for most looked after children are so poor in relation to their peers, and why so much remains to be done in this area.
While welcoming all new ideas that will have a positive ...