Personal social services includes spending on things like care for looked after children as well as the long term care of the elderly, sick and disabled. (politics.co.uk)
Every local authority is required to have a published policy setting out its approach to delegation of authority in respect of looked after children in foster care. (fosterline.info)
These include reviewing the status of children in kinship care to be closer to that of looked after children in relation to the immensely difficult circumstances they often face. (grandparentsplus.org.uk)