You're “Just” a Foster Carer & Revolving Door Failed Leadership; They Move Around. So Does the Damage.

You’re “JUST” a foster carer. A word that tells you an awful lot about how foster carers are still viewed by parts of the care system.

This week Sarah and Louise unpack the “just” that diminishes foster carers, the weaponisation of experience, and why carers are expected to behave like professionals while routinely being treated as though their knowledge, qualifications and expertise somehow count for less.

But first, we’re looking at 112 care leavers who died last year, and asking the uncomfortable question: how many more reviews do we need before someone actually changes the system that keeps producing the same outcomes?

Then we turn our attention to the revolving door of children’s services leaders ...