The Foundation's achievements can be seen in many ways - for example:

• Following the death in local authority care of Jasmine Beckford in 1984, more than a decade of Foundation-organised conferences led to concrete improvements in child protection policy and practice.
  
  
• 'Best practice' models shared at conferences have been widely adopted across England and Wales.
  
  
• The guidance document which accompanied the landmark Children Act 1989 was revised after a searching review by practitioners at our annual conference.
  
  
• The Foundation's 1997 conference on Cross-border Paedophile Activity and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes had a pivotal influence on legislation regarding sexual offenders arrested abroad.
  
  
• Five consecutive conferences reviewing children and crime have produced new ideas for keeping young people out of prison and reforming the juvenile justice system.
  
  
• The Government are taking action on a child defendant's pack and guidance on pre-trial therapy - two recommendations from the Foundation's 2001 conference on The Needs of Offending Children.
  
  
• More employers are being urged to invest in training and careers for young offenders - following the example of the Army and the Northern Racing College who were encouraged by the Foundation to give this vital second chance.
  
  
• The Foundation prepared in 2002 a video programme - A Second Chance, for screening at Young Offenders' Institutions throughout the country- with case studies on training and job opportunities in the community.