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Fostering
Fostering through your council, training, standards, fostering agencies, data collection forms, 'staying put' arrangements.
Services
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Foster carers
Foster carers look after children when their parents aren't able to - becoming a foster carer, money and support available, fostering agencies
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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
- Staying put: arrangements for care leavers aged 18 years and above
- Children Act 1989: fostering services
