Martin Narey

Special Report: Government urges local authorities to prioritise adoption

28/01/2020
Est. Reading: 7 minutes

The government has urged local authorities to prioritise adoption for vulnerable children in care although some areas of the sector have slammed the move.
Education secretary Gavin Williamson has called on councils not to shy away from putting children forward for adoption, and has asked them to review their practices following a drop in the [...]

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Special report: Fostering stocktake calls for register of foster carers

08/02/2018
Est. Reading: 12 minutes

Special report: Fostering stocktake calls for register of foster carers

A national fostering stocktake has urged a national register of foster carers to be established.

The independent review, carried out by Sir Martin Narey and Mark Owers, said there is ‘merit’ in developing a national register of foster carers to better match parents and [...]

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Martin Narey to review fostering system

28/04/2017
Est. Reading: 2 minutes

The government has asked Sir Martin Narey to carry out a review of the fostering system.

Martin Narey carried out a similar review of residential care, concluding that the role of residential care is misunderstood and the contribution of children’s homes is ‘too easily dismissed’.

The Secretary of State has asked Narey along with experienced children [...]

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Martin Narey among new recruits to advise children’s commissioner

26/09/2016
Est. Reading: 2 minutes

Children’s commissioner Ann Longfield has appointed a number of high-profile figures in social care, the government and the media to provide her office with strategic advice.

Government advisor Martin Narey, former Association of Directors of Children’s Services president, Alison O'Sullivan, Behaviour and Insight leader, David Halpern and BBC Children's Chief, Alice Webb are the new recruits [...]

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Narey: Children’s residential care is 'misunderstood'

06/07/2016
Est. Reading: 4 minutes

Martin Narey publishes an independent review of children’s residential care

The role of residential care is misunderstood, Martin Narey has concluded in his independent review into the use of residential care.

“I think the role of children’s homes is misunderstood, the challenge of the children they care for underestimated, and the contribution they make too easily dismissed,” [...]

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