Fostering

Services

Apply to foster a child through your council
Apply to foster a child through the social services department of your local council
TSD standards workbook for foster carers
Form for foster carers to prove they meet the required training, support and development (TSD) standards.
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.
TSD standards workbook for family and friends foster carers
Form for family and friends foster carers to fill in to prove that they meet the training, support and development standards.
TSD standards workbook for short break foster carers
Form for short break carers to fill in to prove that they meet the training, support and development standards for foster carers.

Foster carers
Foster carers look after children when their parents aren't able to - becoming a foster carer, money and support available, fostering agencies

Guide
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

Answer
Fostering services: national minimum standards
Guidance
8 March 2011
Department for Education
Fostering services: assessment and approval of foster carers
- Statutory guidance
- 15 July 2013
- Department for Education
Children Act 1989: private fostering
- Statutory guidance
- 25 July 2005
- Department for Education

20 July 2018

Department for Education

News story

Minister visits projects supporting children's services in Leeds
- 3 April 2018
- Department for Education
- News story
Staying Put grant: determination letter
- 28 February 2018
- Department for Education
- Correspondence

Foster care in England
- 20 July 2018
- Department for Education
- Independent report
Fostering better outcomes
- 20 July 2018
- Department for Education
- Policy paper