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May 2004
 Fostering the
Future: Safety, Permanence and Well-Being for Children in Foster
Care
All children need
safe, permanent families that love, nurture, protect, and guide
them. This was the starting point for the work of the Pew
Commission on Children in Foster Care and a steady compass
throughout our deliberations. Foster care protects children who
are not safe in their own homes. For some children, it is
literally life-saving. But for too many children, what should be a
short-term refuge becomes a long-term saga, involving multiple
moves from one foster home to another. None of us would want this
for our own children. The Pew Commission's recommendations
identify "next steps" on the road to reducing the number
of children in foster care, shortening the amount of time children
have to spend there, and responding better to the needs of all
children in care. The steps we recommend are in the direction of
reforming federal financing of child welfare service and court
oversight of child welfare cases.
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