Karen Sinclair AM served in the National Assembly for Wales between 1999 and 2011. She was previously a member of the Cabinet, as the Business Manager from 2003 to 2005. Karen was a founding member of the All-Party Group on Deaf Issues and has also been a member of the Agriculture and Health Committees. She chaired the URBAN II regeneration project monitoring Committee in West Wrexham. She is standing down from the Assembly in 2011. Previously, Karen has worked in the Youth service for fourteen years and managed a house for people with learning disabilities for Wrexham Social Services. She is also a former trained Citizens Advice Bureau adviser.

An active state must play pushy parent to children in care

As a parent your responsibility for your children doesn’t end when they get to eighteen – so why do we not apply the same standards to children in care?