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Dawn Howley: past caring

  • Foster carers cannot take the place of parents

    Dawn Howley
    Rather than closing residential care homes, and sending more children to be fostered, we need to reduce their size
  • Result of a bipolar endgame should not be a lottery

    This article was taken down on 3 February 2011 pending investigation

  • Care leavers will be deeply injured by short-term cuts

    Dawn Howley
    Children who are not helped properly now will end up costing more as they will end up in our prisons, on the streets or being exploited into sex work, says Dawn Howley
  • Welfare reforms threaten the backbone of big society

    Dawn Howley
    The government's plans risk losing a vital cohort of potential volunteers
  • A prison cell door

    Spending early on children in care will save in the long term

    Dawn Howley

    The state, as a corporate parent to vulnerable children, should give a child the best possible start in life. Even if it costs in the short term, says Dawn Howley

  • Taking families 'into care' is a better option for children

    Dawn Howley
    Only in the worst cases of child abuse should babies be taken into care sooner, writes Dawn Howley
  • Dawn Howley, for Past Caring Society Column

    Social mobility is the glass ceiling we still need to break

    Dawn Howley assesses the stigma attached to care leavers that go on to higher education

  • Life-changing care shouldn't be a matter of pot luck

    Dawn Howley

    Dawn Howley on her experience of care as a teenager

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