Mark Willis

By Mark Willis

Following its call for evidence, the Department for Education is now poring over the submissions of all those who contributed to the fostering stocktake over the past few weeks.

The stocktake aims to gather evidence, inter alia, on what works best in fostering settings to improve outcomes for children, what improvements could be [...]

Last week in the Queen’s Speech the government set out its plans for the Children and Social Work Bill, the details of which had been widely trailed following a Sunday Times article written three days earlier by the Prime Minister, David Cameron, writes Mark Willis.

Among the Bill’s chief aims is a determination to ‘speed [...]

Director of WillisPalmer Mark Willis on how small steps can make a huge impact on the children social workers work with daily

Last week I attended a two-day conference for business owners in Wales, at the Celtic Manor resort near Newport.  It was attended by 840 people from the UK and Europe and featured some [...]

Managing director of WillisPalmer Mark Willis on the government’s recent announcement on adoption

Last week the government announced it was planning to change the law to ‘speed up’ the adoption of children in care and make it ‘easier’ for foster carers to adopt those who are living with them.

These changes, announced by the education secretary [...]

As former health secretary Alan Johnson stated that the care system neither encourages nor sufficiently supports kinship care as an alternative to care arrangements, Mark Willis, Managing Director of WillisPalmer, discusses some of the key issues raised at the organisation’s recent conference on the issue of Kinship Care.

The care system neither encourages nor sufficiently supports [...]