It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Jeremy. I thank both the hon. Member for South West Devon (Rebecca Smith) for securing the debate and other Members for their interventions. Since my appointment last September, I have made renewing our fostering system my No. 1 priority as the Minister for Children and Families. Through extensive engagement and discussion, we have pulled together a bold plan to create 10,000 additional foster care places by the end of this Parliament, acknowledging that foster care numbers are in decline with a 12% drop since 2019. The total number of inquiries made last year only saw 7,300 newly approved foster carers despite 150,000 inquiries, and 59% of fostering assessments take more than six months. This pressure has led to a 24% increase in children living in residential care between 2020 and 2025, with spending on residential care doubling to £3.7 billion over the same period. Our reforms include renewing local authority fostering teams and expanding fostering hubs that take on the full end-to-end process, creating new regional care co-operatives, launching a digital platform to speed up approvals, changing standards for kinship carers and foster approval systems, scaling and supporting innovations like Mockingbird and Room Makers programmes, rewriting the rulebook around fostering, and encouraging partnerships between fostering hubs and independent fostering associations. We aim to ensure that every child who could thrive in foster care has the option of a home to grow up in with love, stability, and opportunity.