We have had a significant impact in influencing legislation, including the Children Act 1989.
These achievements are due to us consistently bringing evidence of injustices to the attention of politicians, practitioners and the media, and putting forward workable solutions.
However, more could be done to prevent children from being taken into care in the first place and parents need to get the early help to stop problems escalating into a crisis.
There are more than 200,000 children in the UK raised by family and kinship carers. These children have suffered similar adversities to those in the care system, yet the support they receive (or lack of it) bears little if any relationship to their needs.
We are needed now more than ever.