Fostering
Fostering through your council, training, standards, fostering agencies, data collection forms, 'staying put' arrangements.
Services
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Becoming a foster parent
Foster carers look after children when their parents are not able to - becoming a foster carer, money and support available, fostering agencies, foster parents
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Looking after someone else's child
Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care
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Apply to foster a child through your council
Apply to foster a child through the social services department of your local council
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TSD standards workbook for foster carers
Form for foster carers to prove they meet the required training, support and development (TSD) standards.
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Ofsted annual fostering data collection
Guidance and a suggested template for local authorities and independent fostering agencies to use when sending fostering data to Ofsted.
Guidance and regulation
- Fostering services: national minimum standards
- Fostering services: assessment and approval of foster carers
- Children Act 1989: fostering services
- Staying put: arrangements for care leavers aged 18 years and above
- Children Act 1989: private fostering
News and communications
Research and statistics
- Social care questionnaires 2020: what children and young people told Ofsted
- Children looked after in England including adoption: 2019 to 2020
- Fostering in England 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020
- Fostering in England 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019
- Fostering in England 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018