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The White Paper Care Matters, published by the Department for Education and Skills in 2007, sought to improve the lots of, and futures for, children in public care. Central to this agenda was improving the quality and stability of foster care and the status of foster carers. Foster carers are central to many children and young people's experience of care. It is essential that we value and support them and ensure that they are properly equipped with the necessary range of skills (Department for Education and Skills, 2007, pp8–9). One initiative related to this was the Children's Workforce Development Council's (CWDC) creation in 2007 of the Training, Support and Development Standards for Foster Care (TSDS). When the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition Government came to power in 2010, and subsequently the CWDC was abolished, the TSDS were, as a result, adopted by the Department of Education, and Guidance was re-issued in 2012 by the Department of Education.